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DIVINE SCIENCE
:
KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH
BY
CHARLES EDGAR PRATHER. Ph.D.
Editor Power," Tht Higher Thought Magazine
Author "Spiritual Healing"
THE POWER PUBLISHING COMPANY
DENVER, COLORADO
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CONTENTS
Lesson One
page
How to Study 7
Lesson Two
The Omnipresence and Its Inherencies. . . 13

Lesson Three
Truth and Reality 23

Lesson Four
The Law of Expression 31

Lesson Five
The Christ 39
Lesson Six
Application of the Omnipresence 47

Lesson Seven
The Silence
59
Lesson Eight
True Prayer
69
Lesson Nine
The Power of the Word

79
Lesson Ten
Health and Healing

87
Lesson Eleven
Spiritual and Material Prosperity 97

Lesson
Twelve
Steadfastness to Truth
107
Lesson Thirteen
Growing in Grace
115
Lesson Fourteen
Heaven
Here and Now

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LESSON 1
HOW TO STUDY
^Jj-ERY
FEW PEOPLE really know
Ipl how to study. Most people take a
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lesson, read it over, try to memo-
rize to a certain extent the principal
features, assenting or dissenting to what
they readand that is all they get out of
it. Now, simply the wording of a state-
ment of Truth is not really essentialit
is the consciousness (pure knowing, real-
ization) that one needs which is the
lesson. The broadening, enlarging, and
quickening of the consciousness within is
the principal thing. You might say that
this is L
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nderstanding. Wisdom is Truth
revealed in a general way; understanding
is knowing fully, or consciousness. So
we- are instructed by Solomon to "Get
wisdom, but with all thy getting, get un
derstanding." Get wisdom; get all the
learning you can, study just as much as
you like, if you will do this one thing
"With all thy getting, get the understand-

ing or realization."
O DIVINE SCIENCE I KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH
"The letter killeth, but the Spirit giv-
eth life." Get back of the letter, and you
will be in the realm of pure knowledge.
If you live simply in the letter, even of
the Bible, and not in the Spirit, you have
missed the whole lesson. If you try to be
good outwardly, and do not realize the
consciousness within you, you are grop-
ing in the darkness of sense belief.
Then how are we to study? Whether
teacher or student, the attitude of thought
should be the samethat of receptivity
through earnest, sincere desire to know
Truth. We should not care whether that
upsets our former opinions and beliefs or
not. Are we that sincere, or would we
rather have our old way? You find peo-
ple occasionally who say they do not
know and do not care to know anything
different from their long -accustomed
opinions. But to be a real student of
Truth you must be willing to lay down all
former opinions.
The fact is you are both student and
teacher. Every good thought, every act,
is not only unfolding yourself, but is an
uplifting and inspiring influence to others.
Thoughts are forces; they are not
things. You may go to the uttermost
parts of the earth, to uninhabited islands
of the sea, and vet you are in direct touch
HOW TO STUDY
with the whole universe, and your
thought-force is uplifting or depressing,
according to its character, all those who
are open to it. Therefore, how important
to think only good, happy, successful
thoughts ! What is the use of discourag-
ing or depressing anyone when you can
so easily bless and encourage by the same
force of Divine Power within you by
using it aright ?
There are certain postulates of study.
A postulate is the assumption of a fact or
truth without positive proof. In mathe-
matics we call it an axiom. What are
some of these self-evident truths w
T
hich
are necessary for this unfoldment in con-
sciousness to the perfect knowledge of
Truth?
First, Mind. You know that you are a
thinking being; that thinking is the activ-
ity of Mind ; therefore, there must be
Mind which thinks in you. This Mind is
universal, in everything. It is All-Intelli-
gence. Intelligence embodies within it-
self, as its constituent elements, Wisdom.
Knowledge, and Understanding. Since
you know that you have mind, you should
always recognize these constituent ele-
ments of Mind within you. Thus by mak-
ing your unity with the One and Only In-
telligence, you can with realization de-
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DIVINE SCIENCE I KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH
clare
: "I am wise! I know! I under-
stand!" It is not something which you
attain; it is not something you get out of
books, nor yet from teachers or preach-
ers. Intelligence is inherent within you!
Since Mind is the Presence or Sub-
stance from which all things come, you
know that you must be of that Substance,
and thus partake of its nature and all of
its qualities. The value of courses of
study like this lies in the quickening of
the consciousness, or knowing, already
within you; "Bringing," as Paul says,
"these things to your remembrance."
The first postulate, then, is Mind; and
Mind uses the brain. The brain is the ave-
nue through which Mind thinks; it of it-
self does not think, neither does it gener-
ate thought.
The second postulate is Health. Health
means* Wholeness ; thus Health is the
State of Being, including both the invisi-
ble and the visible. Therefore, you accept
Health as the true state of your being
and the normal state of your mind.
The third postulate is Environment.
Since your attitude of thought determines
how things seem to you, your Environ-
ment is pleasant and harmonious, for you
see it as such. If you see it as bad or lim-
iting, it will be. so to you. If you see it as
HOW TO STUDY 11
harmonious, as an opportunity for growth
and a means for strength, you will find
"conditions"
helpful angels instead of de-
stroying or limiting influences.
Next, you have for use various Appli-
ances
;
stimuli, things to cause you to un-
fold, to grow. These are all necessary to
proper study when used in the right atti-
tude. Now there are some mental activi-
ties which are not necessarily study; such
as reading, recitation, singing, writing
compositions, etc. They may be merely
exercises.
Study is a resolute and methodical ap-
plication of thought to the unfoldment of
the consciousness of Truth, and the prac-
tice of Wisdom.
Some of the elements of Study are
:
First, training the perceptive faculties.
Second, training the reproductive powers
to bring forth the ideal into realization.
Take as a fundamental truth, the Omni-
presence of God, the Presence that fills
all and is All. That is a perception of
Truth to you. You recognize and accept
it as fact, and then go out on the street
and see something you call "bad." You
let your perception of Truth lie dormant
instead of using your reproductive power
to bring it into the visible. This repro-
duction requires Concentration, Deter-
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mination, Activity. When you find your
thought getting away from the Truth,
you must bring it back. Concentration
means to focus attention or thought upon
one thing to the exclusion of all else. As
a rule, not over two or three persons in
any ordinary gathering are accustomed
to holding a thought for fifteen seconds
!
But practice tends to perfection. Every
time you try you will find it a little easier.
Another element of study is the train-
ing of the reasoning facultiesorderly
thinking, step by step, from a correct
premise, or basis, thus unfolding you in
true consciousness to a logical conclusion.
Next, the will. This gives you power
to decide, then do.
The object of study is to become con-
scious of Truth. Therefore, the one great
motive in all study, in all experience,
should be to know the Truth, or Reality
:
That Which Is, or God.
Questions on Lesson 1.
1. Define the meaning of study.
2. What is its object?
3. What should be one's attitude?
4. Name three benefits derived from study.
5. What is a postulate?
6. What are some of the assumptions of Truth
necessary to mental and spiritual unfoldment?
7. What elements of the mentality are exercised
in the reproductive powers?
LESSON II
THE OMNIPRESENCE AND ITS
INHERENCIES
SHE
PURPOSE of this Course of
Lessons is to reveal to the individ-
ual (to me) the full presence of God
in me and in the universe.
Basis. To build a house one must have
a firm foundation; this is the starting-
point, the basis. Therefore, a foundation
is that upon which a thing stands. If the
foundation be firm, the superstructure
will be permanent. Hence, how impor-
tant that we have a basis that is abso-
lutely true. The only sure foundation for
any church, belief, or religion, is Truth.
God is this reality. Thus our Foundation,
or Basis, upon which we must build a per-
fect understanding and expression, is
God, The Omnipresence.
Meaning of Words. Every word has an
inner meaning, which gives it its charac-
ter; and in this inner meaning is its truth
revealed. The Bible, as all other books,
must be thus read in the spirit, and not
alone in the letter, to gain its real mean-
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ing. The word "Divine" comes from the
Latin word "Divinus," meaning God.
"Science," from the Latin, "scio"to
know. Divine Science means then, liter-
ally, To Know God ; exact and systematic
knowledge of That Which Is
!
Synonyms. There are many terms used
for this Presence which is all; such as
God, Mind, Infinite, Being, Source, Cre-
ator, Cause, Spirit, Universal, Father,
etc., but to carry the fuller and deeper
meaning we like to call it The Omni-
presence.
OmniOne, All, Only. Presence
Substance. The One and Only Substance

anywhere, everywhere. The One All, the
All OneUncreate Spirit Substance.
Visible and invisible, all one Substance
Spirit. All visible substance, called mat-

ter, is Spirit or God Substance. This does
not deny or destroy the* form of a thing,
nor change its nature or essence. "That
which is born of Spirit is Spirit." There
is no separation between the visible and
invisible; they are one.
Spirit is Substance omnipresent. Get
this thought firmly fixed, that Spirit is
Substance which is everywhere, whether
seen or unseen. That which is seen is ex-
actly in essence like that which is unseen,
because that which is seen was once un-
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seen. That which is seen has come forth
from the invisible, and it was as truly
Substance then as it is now. There is no
separation between the visible w
r
orld and
the invisible worldit is all One.
Since Spirit is Substance omnipresent.
Spirit is the Substance of all form. In-
stead of there being no life, intelligence
and substance in matter, it is filled with
them. There is infinite Life and Intelli-
gence in every atom of matter, and there
is infinite Life and Intelligence working
in the unseen Substance which may ap-
pear later as matter.
Being
is That Which Is. That part
which is manifest is said to exist. God
exists to the extent of all manifestation
as such, but the great immensity of Spirit
is not seen; just as we see only the surface
of the earth or ocean.
Existence is but a very small part of
God ; but from what we do see we can de-
termine the nature, character, powers and
potentialities of God unseen. We find
that it is all the same Substance, and thus
know
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that all that is visible is like unto
that which is invisible. Everything is in-
terchanging, the within coming forth and
becoming the without. As the undercur-
rents of the ocean come to the surface,
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they are shown to be the same. So can
man also know God or Spirit or Mind.
Wisdom is the first dawn of light. It is
Being revealing Itself. It is as the dawn-
ing of the morning wherein things are but
dimly revealed; everything is seen as a
whole, as one. As the light becomes
clearer, more definite, we begin to see the
different objects. This is Knowledge. As
the light becomes still clearer, we per-
ceive the right relation of objects to each
other and their constituent parts. Then
we get into the heart of each individual
thing, where we see its law of unfoldment
and expression; thus we have Under-
standing.
Or, in another way : Wisdom is that
which reveals a machine as machine. We
see it as a whole. Knowledge gives us an
insight into the various parts of this ma-
chine. We see that the parts are perfect
and are working together nicely, but we
do not understand how or why. This
fuller light of consciousness, which is Un-
derstanding, shows us all in minutest de-
tail; not only the parts, but their relation,
the office of each part, and how they all
make the complete machine, producing
the perfect product for which it was in-
tended. "Get Wisdom, but with all thy
getting, get Understanding," said the
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world's wisest man. Do not live on the
surface:
drink deeply of pure Conscious-
ness !
Mind, therefore, embraces inherent
powers which show forth as Wisdom,
Knowledge, and Understanding. These
constitute Intelligence.
The Nature of this One and Only Pres-
ence is Perfect HarmonyLove. It be-
gins to manifest in the first dawn of con-
sciousness. Love unifies, holds together.
This power is still Love, whether you call
it gravity, adhesion, cohesion, chemical
affinity, human affection, or universal
love. Since the nature of all is Love, it
is evident that it must be harmonious, for
Love is orderly, perfectly tranquil, with
no ripples of unrest, dissatisfaction, or an-
noyance. Love is conscious unity; it
unites, holds together. It is the force
which produces and holds together the
form of all manifestation.
Life is evidenced by activity. There is
nothing so solid or dense that it is not
pulsating with the activity of its own
Spirit Substance. The atoms or mole-
cules of rock or gold are revolving around
each other just as accurately and truly as
do the planets in our solar system.
The Strength of Spirit is shown in this
activity of Life. Consciously realized and
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used, it becomes Power. Thus the con-
sciousness of Wisdom, Love, Knowledge,
and Understanding unfold you into the
Power of the Perfect Life. Whatever you
can say of the Omnipresence you can say
truthfully of yourself, for are you not the
manifestation of this Presence which is
all ? You are not only a part of it, you are
included in the whole, and whatever it is,
you are
!
Joy
is inhered not only in Spirit Sub-
stance, but in its every quality and char-
acteristic. It is the freeing power of Con-
sciousness, which sees and knows all as
Spirit, working under a perfect law for
good. It is the sunshine of the soul which
scatters the clouds of fear, doubt, worry,
and all the other hobgoblins of wrong
thought.
Knowing the Truth, you can not help
being happy; yes, more than happy
joy-
ous. It is that "Peace which passeth un-
derstanding/' It makes all things new,
bright and cheerful. A sunny disposition
is the reflection of a joyful heart.
Joy
is
the realization of Good, and increases as
you unfold in consciousness the divine at-
tributes of your being. These attributes
are the inherencies of the Omnipresence.
Wisdom, Love, Knowledge, Under-
standing, Life, Power, and
Joy
constitute
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Perfection, when fully realized and ex-
pressed. Claim each one for yourself. Do
not say, "I am filled with Life, Love,"
etc., but declare "I am Life; I am Love;
I am Intelligence/' etc.
The Substance of the Omnipresence is
Spirit.
The Activity of the Omnipresence is
Life.
The Nature of the Omnipresence is
Love.
The Strength of the Omnipresence is
Power.
The Intelligence of the Omnipresence
is Wisdom, Knowledge and Understand-
ing.
Joy
is inhered in life, Love, Power and
Intelligence.
An Inherency is that which is infixed,
a constituent part or element, and can not
be separated from.
Therefore, the Inherencies of Omni-
presence are : Wisdom, Love, Knowl-
edge, Understanding, Life, Power, and
Joy.
These constitute Perfection, and un-
fold in consciousness in. the order given.
These may be called the seven perfect
words.
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God is All there is, both invisible and
visible.
One Presence, Knowledge and Power,
is All.
This One that is All is Perfect Life,
Intelligence and Substance.
Man is the Expression of God, and is
ever One with this Perfect Life, Intelli-
gence and Substance.
Repeat this Statement of Being. It
should be learned and repeated daily.
Make it individual by applying it to your-
self, saying, "I am One with this Perfect
Mind, and express Its Life, Intelligence,
and Substance, now and forever."
Mind, because of its inherent Wisdom,.
Knowledge, and Understanding, is the
Intelligence everywhere evidenced in the
purpose, law, and order of the Universe.
By consciousness of Wisdom, Love,
Knowledge, and Understanding, you un-
fold into the Power of the Perfect Life.
"That which is born of Spirit is Spirit."
Like begets like. Spirit is uncreate, un-
derived; always was, Is, and ever will be.
Substance
invisible is Spirit. Substance
visible is Spirit. There is but One Sub-
stance. The qualities or attributes which
may be ascribed to the Invisible just as
rightfully belong to the visible.
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1. Substance (Omnipresence) Every-
where.
2.. LifeEverywhere.
3. Intelligence (Mind) Everywhere.
4. LoveEverywhere.
5. Power (Omnipotence)

Every-
where.
6.
Joy
Everywhere.
7. Perfection (Wholeness)

Every-
where.
To Concentrate means to fix the atten-
tion upon one thing to the exclusion of
all else. Its purpose is to become fully
aw
r
are (conscious) of its truth.
To Resolve means to decide, to fix per-
manently, to do. It means "I will do it."
But a Resolve is such only w
T
hen proven
or put into effect. Its purpose is to cause
one to act, to do.
Concentrates
:
God-Life is Omnipresent Activity.
God-Life is living me.
God-Nature is my nature.
Resolves
:
To see only One Life everywhere.
To realize God in all my activities.
To see Unity everywhere.
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1. What is the object of this course of lessons?
2. What is meant by a basis?
3. Explain the meaning of the words "Divine
Science."
4. What is a synonym? Give five synonyms for
God.
5. What is the meaning of "Omnipresence"?
6. What is the difference between Being and
Existence?
7. What is an inherency?
8. Name the inherencies of Being.
9. Repeat the Statement of Being.
10. Define the words "Concentrate" and "Re-
solve," and of what value are they?
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LESSON III
TRUTH AND REALITY
OD IS THE ETERNAL TRUTH
of the Universe. There is no other
Truth, for Truth means Reality,
Fact, Essence or Substance. God is
Spirit; therefore Spirit is realthe uni-
versal Substance of which all visible
things are formed. This is true. Since
God is the Omnipresencenot only
everywhere, but the very Substance
(Spirit) of everything everywhere
Truth proclaims that there can, in fact,

be no other presence or intelligence or
power anywhere. "I am God, and beside
me there is none else."
What is this Presence that is All and
all-pervading? Yes, the world commonly
calls it God ; but what is Godwhat is
the Truth of God? In other words, what
are the facts or realities, the characteris-
tics of this Omnipresence?
The ever-pervading, all-constituting
Reality, or Godwhich is the Good.
OmniAll; PresenceThat which Is.
This One that is All is the Great Truth
of the Universe.
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1. This Presence is Spirit. (Essence of
Being; the One and Only Substancein-
visible and visible.)
2. This Presence is Truth. (Reality,
Veracity, Fidelity.)
3. This Presence is Light. (Perfect
Mind; Intelligence; Omniscience.)
4. This Presence is Life. (Omniac-
tion.)
5. This Presence is Love. (Conscious
Oneness.)
6. This Presence is Goodness. (Excel-
lence, Virtue, Worth.
)
7. This Presence is Harmony. (Agree-
ment, Concord, Unison.)
8. This Presence is Strength. (Vital-
ity, Potency, Soundness.)
9. This Presence is Power. (Domin-
ion: Strength intelligently directed and
applied. Omnipotence.
)
10. This Presence is Peace. (Quiet-
ness, Tranquility, Poise, Rest, Security.')
11. This Presence is
Joy.
(Recogni-
tion, Appreciation and Realization of the
Good; Exaltation, Delight, Inspiration.)
12. This Presence is Perfection. (The
complete Whole, the Fullness of Being.)
"In whom we live, and move, and have
our being," and "Of His fulness have all
we received."
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Before there was any form, any expres-
sion or visibility, there was this Some-
thing which was the only Substance. It
was Spirit, and this Spirit was Perfect
Mind. The activity of Mind is Thought,
and the perfect thought, the thought
which imaged only the reality of itself as
Thinker, is Idea. This is the true crea-
tion of God. The universe, with its earth,
man, beast, and all else it contains, was
created in Mind as Idea
perfect image
and likeness of its Source. This is true.
God the Perfect Mind is also Perfect
Life. This inherent activity of Being
"formed"' or pressed out into visibility
"expressed"the Perfect Idea clothed

with Perfect Substance. God did not
make the Universe out of nothing!
Neither is it a reflection, but the manifes-
tation or expression of Perfect Life, Per-
fect Intelligence, and Perfect Substance.
Therefore the Invisible and the Visible
are Oneone and inseparable. This is
true.
The work of individual thought is to
perceive the facts of Being, to correctly
interpret the visible, and thus become
conscious, or fully aware, of the Oneness
of all
w
r
hich is God. This also is true.
All discord, all inharmony, come from
man's mistaken mental conceptions; from
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his belief in dualitythat there is always
a "negative pole" to everything, a good
and bad, health and sickness, rich and
poor, heaven and hell, God and the devil.
Since God the Good is the Truth, the
Realityand omnipresentthen these
opposites can not be true, are not real,
and have no life, intelligence, or sub-
stance. The only power they possess is
that which is attributed to them by unil-
lumined thought or belief: for to him who
knows the Truth they are nothing.
Fear is the product of ignorance. We
fear only that which we do not know.
This fear attitudeignorancemakes
one the slave to every false imagination
of evil. This results in mental struggle,
resistance, and desolation, unless re-
deemed by Truth through the conscious-
ness of that which is
God, who or which

is Perfect Substance, Life, Intelligence,
Love,
Joy
and Power.
To know Truth, then, requires an atti-
tude of Serenity. That means the exclu-
sion of all mental anxiety, a letting go of
the seeming, the sense conceptions. This
can be done by centering the thought
upon the Good, upon God, or any of its
phases, and persistently holding it there
until all conception of the outer or sense
condition is eliminated from thought.
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27
This serene attitude is the attitude of re-
ceptivity or true perception. Every door
of sense must be closed; then "be still,"
open and expectant, and God the Truth,
the Reality, will be revealed unto you.
In like manner must fear be cast out
by meditation upon Love, until you be-
come consciously one with the Good ; and
knowing it as All and all-pervading, there
will be nothing to "hurt or make vou
afraid."
This realization of One Life, One Sub-
stance, One Intelligence and One Law
will inspire you to co-operation ; and no
antagonism or resistance will find lodg-
ment in your thought, since it is revealed
to you that the tiniest atom, as well as
the mightiest planet, is the expression of
God, and is directed and governed by In-
telligence and Love.
Practice daily whenever a fear-thought
comes to you, to think, say and live Love.
Keep at it until the Love-thought be-
comes a habit, eliminating the fear-
thought habit. This is the only way to
break a "bad" habit.
When you are tempted to w
r
orryover
anythingthink Trust, Confidence, Faith
in the Truth. The thought of Peace is
always an antidote for anxiety and resist-
ance; Strength for weakness; Health for
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sickness; Life for death. Therefore, to rid
yourself of these false conditions, open
yourself and become consciously one with
Truth.
What is Truth? Reality (God) re-
vealed to youthat is the Truth to you.
It may not be my vision, and therefore
all that you realize may not be the Truth
to me ; but I have no right to dispute nor
qualify your vision. Divine Science asks
only that you live to your highest percep-
tion. In so doing, you expand in con-
sciousness, receive more light, and there-
fore know more Truth. This is growth,
unfoldment.
You thus become a radiant center of
Truth, radiating a healing and inspiring
influence near and far, and others, "seeing
your good works," are quickened into a
fuller comprehension of the real and true.
Since God is the Source and Substance
of all, then only the Good is true. What-
ever is not good is not real. Settle this
fact firmly in your thought. You do not
need to explain the seeming appearance
of evillet it alone
;
"hold fast that which
is good."
In any adverse "seeming," instead of
giving place to it, eliminate the error by
asking yourself the following questions:
Is it from God? Did God create it Ts it
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like God? The answer being "No," then
no longer fear it, for it has no reality, no
power; and you therefore give it no place
in your mentality.
As false beliefs and appearances are
one. Truth and Reality, being one, will
alw
r
ays eliminate the sense of error, for
Knowledge of Truth is the only healing-
ignorance needs.
1. What is the One and All-inclusive Truth of
the Universe?
2. Name some of the qualities and activities of
this Reality.
3. What is the true creation?
4. Of what is the visible universe made?
5. What is the office of individual thought?
6. From whence come all inharmony and dis-
cord?
7. What power do they possess?
8. How may you know the Truth?
9. What is Truth? Why did
Jesus not answer
this
question for Pilate?
10. What is a good rule by which you may de-
termine
what is real and good?
LESSON IV
THE LAW OF EXPRESSION
SHE
STATE of the Omnipresence is
Uncreate, Eternal, Perfect, Express-
ing. Uncreate Truth, Health, Peace,
Satisfaction.
Eternal Truth, Health,
Peace,
Satisfaction. Perfect Truth,
Health, Peace, Satisfaction. Ever ex-
pressing Truth, Health, Peace and Satis-
faction.
In like manner this State of Being ap-
plies to all the qualities, nature and char-
acteristics of Being: Life, Wisdom, Love,
Knowledge, Understanding, Power,
Joy.
Since God, the One Presence, invisible
and visible, is the only Source and Sub-
stance of all, it is evident that all is Spirit.
Because a thing exists, has shape and
form, does not change nor destroy its
substance or nature.
The Law of Expression is quite simple :
"Like begets like/' "That which is born
of Spirit is Spirit." Only when we divert
from such simplicity do we become men-
tally confused in so-called psychological
laws. So-called "reason" is like the moon-
light in comparison with Intuition, Reve-
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lation, or Inspirationthat sunlight of
Truth which is known as the Christ.
Being is that which Is; the Uncreate,
Self-existing Cause ; Substance, invisible
and visible
; Godwithout beginning or
endomnipresent, omniscient, omnipo-
tent.
It is the nature of Being to express. To
express is to press out into form or mani-
festation, the process being from within
outward. The effectthe expression
must of necessity be just like the cause,

like producing like. Thus the cause ever
exists in the effect as its very essence.
The Law of Expression, then, is the or-
derly process of coming forth from the in-
visible into visibility; from darkness to
light ; the processfrom Substance, as
Cause, through active Consciousness, as
method or avenue, into Manifestation.
There are three phases (not persons)
of Being expressed in everything. The
first of this trinity is always the embodi-
ment of the whole; the second is the ac-
tivity by which the expression or projec-
tion is accomplished; and the third, the
manifestation. Thus in the Trinity of Be-
ing,
(1)
"Father" is the whole;
(2)
"Holy
Spirit" is the activity by which the
(3)
"Son" is expressed.
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The Perfect Mind is three-fold: Mind
(the Substance), Idea (Thought Activ-
ity), Consciousness (True Knowing, the
result or expression.)
Being, I Am, Intelligence.
Spirit, Soul, Comprehension.
God, Christ, Holy Comforter.
Mind, before it can manifest itself,
must be conscious of itself, its inherencies
and potentialities. Idea and Conscious-
ness inhering in Mind are a part of Mind,
yet they are not separate, the three con-
stituting Mindall one.
Therefore, Mind, Thought, Word
(Body) is the orderly process by which
Mind through its activity (Thought) ex-
presses itself as Form. It is just as truly
Mind after it is expressed as when invisi-
ble. If you separate the derived from the
underived, the seen from the unseen, and
put your confidence in things of the visi-
ble alone, you will be crucified upon the
cross of materiality.
Humanity has covered the real Self
with all sorts of false notions and beliefs,
superstitions and fears, until it has lost
all conception of its divinity, the only
reality of being.
"Like begets like." So simple, so plain!
In every seeming trouble, get back to this
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fundamental truth. Know that God is All,
the only Creator, and therefore only the
Good is true. All else is but mental illu-
sion, delusion, a beliefthe result of un-
enlightened thought.
Look back to the time when there was
no visible universe. There was "in the be-
ginning"before the beginning of any
forma Something. Some call it Spirit,
others call it God, the One Perfect Mind,
the Father; but by whatever name it is
known, it was then the Only Presence,
filling all and being all.
Its activityLifethrough its Intelli-
gence began to formulate and express it-
self in form or visibility. This is Expres-
sion or Manifestation. Thus the universe
came into existence. Of what did the
form consist? Did God create the uni-
verse out of nothing? Only nothing from
nothing proceeds. That which is manifest
came forth from Something! What was
there? Only God, Spirit. What, then, is
the visible universe? Spirit-Substance,
the Manifestation of God or Mind.
It is therefore plain that Spirit is the
Substance of all form. Hence there can
be no matter in and of itself. All is Spirit,
invisible and visible. "That which is born
of Spirit is Spirit." There was and is
nothing else of which to be born. God is
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Spirit, the Only Substance, the Only
Source, the Only Creator, Therefore, the
visible, as well as the invisible, is Spirit-
Substance, God-Substance, and not ma-
terial.
God being* all, and all-pervading, and
since evil can not come forth from good,
there is no place for anything adverse to
God. "Like begets like." God only in
the beginning, God only in the present,
and God only forever.
Individual unfoldment is accomplished
through the same Law of Expression.
Repression is stagnation; the Dead Sea,
which always receives, but never gives.
It is a contracting and binding influence.
Learn to express. What you now know
of the Truth, of goodness, of life, of
health, begin to useexpress. Let your
light shine ; be a radiant center through
which the Spirit will illumine the world,
for where the Light of Truth shines the
darkness of ignorancewith all its at-
tendant illswill disappear. Your high-
est conception of Truth, if you express it
live itwill unfold you to greater and
grander realizations. This is growth, un-
foldment, expression.
This growth is natural. By imagining
evil you see the image of your false
thought, and thus you becloud your vision
of Truth and therefore impede your un-
foldment in consciousness. Personal
thought, believing in appearances, in du-
ality, sees according to such untrue think-
ing. The result is a mixed mentality, see-
ing some good, some evil; some Spirit,
some matter; some strength, some weak-
ness; some life, some death, etc.
Expression meaning the representation
of that which isReality or Truth, it is
incorrect to say that anyone expresses
evil, sickness, etc. They are not real, but
so long as one believes in them they seem
real; their power being only that which is
attributed to them in thought and belief.
The work of Divine Science is to
awaken one to right or true thought
thinking with God, or rather, to realize

the One Perfect Mind thinking in us as
our very selves. We lift up the Christ in
the wilderness of mentality as Moses lift-
ed up the brazen serpent, that whoever is
receptive to the Truth may look unto it
and be saved, for Christ is the light of
God unto salvation here and now.
Then, friend, awake from the delusion
of sense thought and belief; let into your
heart the Light of Truth, and see yourself
spirit, soul and bodyas the perfect,
intelligent, loving expression of your
Father, inheriting all the qualities of your
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Source; then in every event, circumstance
and condition, in everybody and in every-
thing you will see only God, and behold,
all things will work together for good.
Individual thought (true thought, spir-
itual and not mental) is the eye of the
soul; the "eye single to the glory of
God;" the vision of the soul; the channel
through which the Infinite
expresses or-
derly and perfectly. "The Father work-
eth in me." Repeat the trinity of your
individuality until you become fully
aware
of its truth:
God Thinks in me as my very self.
God Acts through me as my very self.
The conclusion of Truth:
Intelligence,
Love, Life, Power,
Joy
Express through
me, and as me.
Right thinking is the activity of your
mentality in harmony with the Perfect
Mind, and opens you to the realization of
your oneness with Good, the image and
likeness of God.
Since God is perfect, and since "Like
begets like," its productwhich you are
must be perfect. Claim your perfection,
and hold steadfastly to that ideal until
you attain its realization ; for through
your affirmation of Truth you realize
your oneness with that which you declare
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your unity. This is the process of growth,
unfoldment, expression.
Keep in thought that you are the off-
spring of the Living God, and claim your
inheritance from Him. From
God, the
Father, you inherit Life, Health,
Strength, Love,
Joy,
Perfection.
Concentrates
:
One Presence pervades all and is All.
"Like begets like." I am the expres-
sion of Perfection.
Resolves
:
To think only the good and true.
To say and do only that
which is
good and true.
1. What is the state of Being?
2. Give simply the Law of Expression.
3. Explain the trinity of Mind.
4. What is a manifestation or expression?
5. Of what does it consist?
6. Is it different from the substance of its
source?
7. What is substance?
8. How is individual unfoldment accomplished?
9. Can one express anger, disease, or evil?
10. What place has right thinking in your un-
foldment?
LESSON V
THE CHRIST
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SPECIALLY do our thoughts turn
JP
to the Essential Truth of all relig-
^^
ion
The Christ. It may be known

by other names to other people of other
beliefs, yet it is the same Spirit of Truth
that "lighteth every man that cometh
into the world." Therefore, it is the Chief
Essential of every religion. Without it,
worship is superficial, mere ceremony,
"having a form of goodliness, but deny-
ing (lacking) the power thereof."
What, then, is the Christ? Who was
Jesus
Christ? Is
Jesus
and the Christ
one and the same ? Was
Jesus the "only
begotten Son" of God? Who or what is
the savior of the world? Was Jesus
di-
vine? and, What is a Christian?
These are honest inquiries of millions
of sincere hearts. The world has been
taught for ages to accept without ques-
tion the declarations of those in "relig-
ious authority," and thus creeds and
dogmas have taken the place of true
Christianity.
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40
As a rule, the church has been the last
institution to adopt any
progressive
movement, being both conservative and
reactionary. Religion, therefore, has stul-
tified inspiration and dulled the con-
science, that "still small voice" which is
ever seeking expression in the heart of
man. It has been left to that semi-relig-
ious movement, known as the New
Thought, to reveal true Christianity unto
the world. And the church is slowly but
surely accepting its demonstrated princi-
ples of living Truth.
Divine Science means literally "know-
ing God." Not a guess, nor a belief;
neither a hope, nor a theory; but an act-
ual realization, "the Spirit itself bearing
witness with our spirit."
The worth of a thing is known by what
it produces. The practice of the Presence
of God makes you godly, and produces
the "fruit of the Spirit"Love,
Joy,
Peace, Longsuffering, Gentleness, Good-
ness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance ; the
effect of which is the realization of
Health, Wholeness, Happiness.
Right thought, right motive, earnest
desire, and persistency of effort harmon-
ize and unify. This was discovered by
man without the thought of religion or
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through any religious instruction; it was
the natural result of calm reflection free
from any restraint or creedal bondage.
But that process of thought soon led man
to the source of all true thoughtthe
One Perfect Mind, and man found him-
self only a small channel through which
Infinite Intelligence operates. Here arose
the idea of worship, giving recognition,
honor and reverence to the One Source
and Fullness of all Good, which we call
God our Father.
This discovery of fundamental Truth
without the thought of religious dictum,
and its practical application in mental,
physical and temporal affairs, proved be-
yond any question of doubt its reality, and
led man to a recognition of its Source, its
nature and power. Hence the use of the
term, "semi-religious movement," for
what is known as "New Thought."
When one has passed through this evo-
lution of mentality, from a belief in any-
thing adverse to God to a realization or
knowledge of the Truth, he becomes
wholly religious, which means "a binding
back" or becoming wholly and con-
sciously at-one with God, the Source and
Substance of his being. For this reason
Divine Science represents the spiritual
and religious phase of New Thought, and
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therefore is rightly known as the Higher
Thought.
Divine Science proclaims the Truth of
God to the world, and therefore the Truth
of Man; for Man is the Expression of
God, and is ever One with Perfect Life,
Perfect Intelligence, and Perfect Sub-
stance. It goes direct to the Source of
Intelligence
God

for its Wisdom,
Knowledge and Understanding.
The medium through which this Intel-
ligence is imputed to man, the means by
w
T
hich he is made conscious (fully aware),
is by the "inspiration of the Almighty,"
called The Christ. This illuminating.
Truth-revealing Power is universal, and
has never and can never be limited to
any time, locality or personality. It is the
Light that lighteth every man that Com-
eth into the world, as declared Paul. This
is the "only begotten Son," the saving,
'healing and transforming and indwelling
Power of every man, and therefore of the
world.
Jesus
the Christ was such only after he
became fully conscious of his oneness
with God. Jesus,
the human, grew in wis-
dom and in stature ; he profited by expe-
rience, ever expanding in consciousness
until the personality (Jesus')
was merged
into the universal (the Christ). For,
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"'Though he were a Soil, yet learned he
obedience (selflessness) by the things
which he suffered; and being (thus)
made perfect, he became the author (re-
vealer) of eternal salvation." "For it be-
came him (God) to make the captain of
their salvation (Jesus)
perfect through
sufferings/'
We find, then, that
Jesus
was the hu-
man, like unto the rest of us. He was re-
sponsive to the intuition, the inspiration
of Truththe Christwithin him, and
when he arrived at the point of spiritual
unfoldment wherein he could say, "I of
mine own self can do nothing: the Father
within me he doeth the w
r
orks," he be-
came conscious of the Allness of God,
conscious of his own divinity, and con-
scious of power.
Jesus
Christ therefore means Man con-
scious of his divinity; realizing that "I
and my Father are one." Refer this same
truth to yourself: let go your thought of
self, the personality; let God through the
quickening spirit of Christ within you re-
veal your divinity, and you will become
conscious of the Allness of God and noth-
ingness of self; thus you will verily be
Jesus
the Christa savior of the world
!
Stupendous truth! Glorious truth!
Jesus demonstrated what God will do
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for you when you open yourself to the
Christ-light.
Jesus,
the individual expres-
sion, expands into the Christ, the Divine
expression. What he realized we may all
realize. What he demonstrated we may
demonstrate. What he did we may do.
This universal Christ, the "only begot-
ten Son," is your only hope of glory, of
salvation. Because the religious world
has attached the Christ to but one man,
its truth has been hid. It has been "the
mystery which hath been hid from ages
and from generations, but is now made
manifest to his saints, which is Christ in
you, the hope of glory."
Jesus
and the Christ are therefore
blended, become one, when man becomes
conscious of the indwelling God. This is
the "Power that worketh in you," which
purifies, frees, redeems, and transforms
verily your savior. The impersonal

Christ, the universal Christ, becomes
your savior, the savior of the world, as
through its light you awaken from the
dream of sense to a conscious realization
of the Truth. "Awake, thou that sleepest,
and Christ shall give thee light." "For ye
shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall
make you free"from all mental miscon-
ceptions, wrong beliefs and untrue con-
clusions.
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Divine Science proclaims the divinity
of the man
Jesus
the most God-con-

scious man known to history. And it de-
clares the divinity of all humanity! This
does not drag
Jesus
down to the seeming
level of humanity, but lifts humanity to
its rightful plane.
Jesus
himself declared,
"That which is born of Spirit is Spirit.''
God is Spirit; God is the Only Source,
Substance, Creator. Therefore, we are
"born, not of blood, nor of the will of
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
And, "Of His fulness have all we re-
ceived." "Now are we the sons of God.''
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit, that we are the children of
God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of
God, and joint-heirs with Christ."
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A Christian, by whatever name he may
be known, is one who gives heed to the
promptings of Truth within him, who
walks in the light as it is given him
through his expanding consciousness,
who thinks his highest, truest thoughts,
and lives his best. This is the "inspiration
of the Almighty," the unerring guide, the
Revelation of Truththe Christ. He who
follows this Light, though he lives in
"darkest Africa" and never heard the
name of Testis, is verilv a Christian!
46 divine science: knowledge of truth
1. What is the essential Truth of all religion?
2. What is the true meaning of "religion"?
3.
W
r
hat is the Christ?
4. What does the name "Jesus Christ" signify?
5. How did Jesus become the Christ?
6. Have you the same right and privilege?
7. When and how does the Christ apply to the
individual?
8. Where shall you look for this Light?
9. Does Divine Science deny the divinity of
Jesus? What does it proclaim?
10. What is a real Christian?
LESSON VI
APPLICATION OF THE
OMNIPRESENCE
^jtjtE
PROVE A THING BY AP-
2JJ4
PLYING IT. The same is true of
^
Divine Science
Knowledge of
God. Its truths are demonstrable. Little
value lies in merely memorizing certain
principles; its worth lies in using those
principles in your thoughts, words and
deeds. Moreover, you receive the joy of
a deeper and fuller realization of their
SourceGod.
In applying the truth of Omnipresence,
let us first definitely fix in our thought
this statement of the One Perfect Mind:
There is but One Mind. It is perfect
Intelligence. It is Omnipresence, Omnis-
cience, Omnipotence, and Omniaction
forever.
As perfect Intelligence, the One Mind
is known as a trinity in unityMind,
Idea, Consciousness.
The Perfect Mind is all Wisdom,
Knowledge and Understanding.
By realization of Wisdom, Knowledge
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and Understanding, man unfolds into the
power of the Perfect Life.
What does this mean? That this Mind
is the only Thinker. Its product is
Thought, which must therefore be per-
fect. That which images anything con-
trary to the good is not Thoughtonly
belief, opinion, false mental images, aris-
ing from a limited or beclouded percep-
tion of the Truth or Reality. But since
the world calls all such mental action
"thought," we designate real Thought as
"true thought" or "right thought," and
all other mental picturing as "false
thought" or "untrue thought."
To rid yourself, then, of "vain imagin-
ings," affirm these statements:
There is but One Mind. It thinks only
that which is good, true, wholesome, har-
monious. Since it is omnipresent, I rec-
ognize its presence within me. It is the
Mind of my mind. I therefore think only
that which is good, true, wholesome, har-
monious. I refuse to image anything op-
posite. I make a daily practice in thus
dwelling upon the good, the true, the
beautiful.
This is applying the Truth, and you
will find that you will grow in comprehen-
sion, your vision will be broadened, and
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you will be thinking, speaking and being
the very things you have thus imagined.
Mind is the Essence of God. Therefore,
it is not only Intelligence, but the only
Substance of all, both invisible and visi-
ble. It not only fills all, but is all there is.
To practice the Presence of God means
that you accept its omnipresent Reality.
Therefore, let us affirm, each for himself:
I accept the Omnipresence without any
reserve. Since God fills all, and is all,
there is no place in my thought for any-
thing adverse to the Good.
Repeat this until it becomes fixed in
your thought. Say it when there is any
appearance of wrong, or anything appar-
ently opposite, even though you may not
be able to explain the appearance. You
accept the truth that God is omnipotent
;
that God is good; that God is the One In-
telligence therefore pervading all. Then
steadfastly adhere to this truth, regard-
less of the seeming, and soon your "light
shall break as the morning"
you will be-

gin to "know with God," the meaning of
Consciousness. You will be aware of, vou
will know.
Now apply this to yourself and your af-
fairs. Since God is the only Presence,
there is only goodness, harmony, order.
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perfection displayed therein. Be true and
persistent in such practice, and soon there
will be manifest health, strength, and suc-
cess. There is no place in God for sin,
sickness, lack or death.
Mind, because of its Wisdom, Knowl-
edge and Understanding, is the Intelli-
gence everywhere evidenced in the pur-
pose, law and order of the Universe.
Open yourself to it unreservedly. Take
the attitude that this Intelligence thinks
in you and acts through you as your very
self. It instructs, guides and actuates you.
Trust it. Rely upon it. Respond to it.
And the result will be true and definite
demonstration or proof of its reality.
An inherency being a quality or thing
which is infixed, a part of, and can not be
separated from, we find that our, being is
wholly divine, endowed with God-charac-
teristics.
"The fruit (not "fruits
1
')
of the Spirit
is love, joy,, peace, longsuffering, gentle-
ness, goodness, faith, meekness, temper-
ance
;
against such there is no law."
Gal. 5:22,23. These are the expressions

or qualities of the Omnipresence in you.
The more you practice them the more
evident they become. Only through ap-
plication does one become proficient.
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Growth or unfoldment is the name given
to the result of such practice.
The more you practice the Presence of
God, the more God-like you become.
Know that God is the Source and Sub-
stance of your being, that the inherencies
of Divine Being are your inherencies:
Wisdom, Love, Knowledge, Understand-
ing, Life, Power,
Joy.
These constitute
Perfection. When? Now!
Let this same Mind be in you which
was also in Christ
Jesus.
Phil. 2:5.
There is but One Mind. It is divine,
perfect Intelligence. It permeates every-
thing, and is the essence or substance of
all things. Its intelligence instructs the
plant just how to grow; the bee how to
make honey; the blood how to circulate;
and man to know what he is. Why then
the injunction to be of the same mind?
It means taking the right attitude, attun-
ing the mentality to the Truththat
which really is! For there are two ways
of thinking, according to the world's be-
lief: one the true thinking, which "sees as
the Father sees"only the Good ; the
other is personal thinking, belief, based
upon appearances or false mental images
the result of a lack or ignorance of the
Truth.
The thought which tends to the outer
including circumstances, conditions and
environmentthe attitude which is read-
ily depressedis not thought at allfor
Thought is the action of Mind, and since
there is but one Mind, the Perfect Mind,
there can be no other real thought than
that which is perfect and good. Hence, it
is necessary for us to refer to that other
mental imaging, which the world calls
thought, as untrue or false thought. It is
called by Paul the "carnal mind/'
The question of thinking then lies pri-
marily in one's attitude, inclination, dis-
position or desire. "For they that are
after the flesh do mind the things of the
flesh ; but they that are after the Spirit
the things of the Spirit, for to be carnally
minded is death ; but to be spiritually
minded is life and peace."
Therefore this urge to be of the higher
attitude is the refreshing of one's inner
consciousness. Paul again says, "I stir up
your pure minds by way of remem-
brance." Remember what? Two essen-
tials : God your Father, your Source
;
and
the unerring law that "like begets like."
Jesus
the Christ was the revelator of
Truth in its fullness to humanity. He was
conscious of this great Law, and there-
fore knew his divinity. He practiced this
Presence, and demonstrated the princi-
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pies of life, and thus is the world's exem-
plar. He was the first and greatest illus-
trator of God consciously realized in man.
This Perfect Mind which he evidenced
we are also to perceive and realize in us.
What is this Mind which was in Christ
Jesus?
1. Holiness, or Wholeness; Complete-
ness.
He declared, "I and my Father are
one." He therefore gave no place to per-
sonal thought, ever attuning himself to
the Infinite Intelligence thinking in him
and speaking through him. Hence he
realized that his words were spirit and
life. No personality, no selfishnesshis
will being completely swallowed up in the
higher perception of the One and Only
Presence : "I seek not my own will, but
the will of my Father which hath sent
me."
When you perceive the fact that God
is All there is, both invisible and visible,
that there is but One Thinker, and that
Perfect Mind is now thinking in you as
your very self, then will you also know
that you are "sent of God," the expressor
of all the divine attributes of Being.
2. Humility.
No personal pride in learning, good-
ness, or power. Readiness to serve and
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bless, realizing that all work, of whatever
kind, is needful, therefore holy, and never
degrading. No cast, no "higher than
thou" attitude, but all one common broth-
erhood with
u
one God, the Father of us
all."
"As
Jesus
sat at meat in the house, be-
hold, many publicans and sinners came
and sat down with him and his disciples."
"He poureth water into a basin, and
began to wash the disciples' feet and to
wipe them with the towel wherewith he
was girded."
3. Gentleness and Meekness.
The recognition and acceptance of the
Presence of God ever around, about and
within us, keeps us calm and serene in the
most trying conditions, for we know that
only the Good is trueall else only false
mental belief. It is the spirit that bears
and forbears. It looks to the interests of
others rather than to self. It is the result
of spiritual enlightenment and faith in
the Good.
"I Paul myself beseech you by the
meekness and gentleness of Christ."
"Who, when he was reviled, reviled not
again
;
and when he suffered, he threat-
ened not; but committed himself to him
that judgeth righteously."
4. Love.
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Conscious unity ! Aware of but One
Presence, the Good. Recognizing but
One Source, but One Substancethe
Father of All. This eliminates any sepa-
rateness, antagonism, envy, strife, and
gives the "peace that passeth understand-
ing" because of a realization of our one-
ness with all people and all things. Only
through such realization can we "love our
neighbor as ourselves." Love is the or-
derly action of Being, the law of equality.
When you know only One Presence, and
all the expression of that One, Love ver-
ily is the fulfilling of all law.
"And now abideth faith, hope and love
;
but the greatest of these is love."
5. Obedience.
Only through conforming to the natur-
al and orderly process of unfoldment
Lawdo we realize and enjoy peace and

freedom. It is the fulfillment of Tight-
ness. All falling short is sin, the penalty
of which is suffering.
"For the law was our schoolmaster to
bring us unto Christ."
"To obey is better than sacrifice."
"Casting down imaginations and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into cap-
tivitv every thought to the obedience of
Christ."
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6. Prayerful.
Prayer as aspiration, communion. This
includes recognition, appreciation and ap-
propriation of that which is higher and
better than sense conditions; an accept-
ance of the Source and Substance of
GoodGod. The highest form of prayer
is affirmation of the Truth.
Jesus, speak-
ing in the Aramaic language, which had
neither past nor future tenses, necessarily
spoke in the present tense : affirming the
truth of the thing desired. Therefore he
prayed, as he taught us to do, to pray
as though he had already received, giv-
ing thanks unto the Father; always leav-
ing the realm of sense and entering into
the higher plane of realization of spiritual
understanding, symbolized by "moun-
tain."
"And he went into a mountain apart
to pray."
"Jesus
lifted up his eyes, and said.
Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard
me, and I knew that thou hearest me al-
ways."
7. Sympathy
Compassion.
This is the product of Love, or con-
scious unity with all. That which affects
one affects all. The "mind which was in
Christ
Jesus," however, does not weaken
itself by assuming the same attitude of
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those afflicted and suffering the pangs of
distress with them, but rather is solicitous
of relieving the effects of sin and at the
same time redeeming the sinful thought
or attitudethe occasion for the suffer-
ing.
"When he saw the multitudes, he was
moved with compassion, because they
fainted, and were scattered abroad, as
sheep without a shepherd/'
"Jesus
went forth and saw a great mul-
titude and was moved with compassion
toward them, and healed their sick."
We have the Mind of Christ.1 Cor.
2:16.
Thus the mind of Christ is the recog-
nition and practice of the Presence of
Godwhich is the whole of Divine
Science.
Application of Truth means agreeing
with God, co-operating with God. con-
scious unity with God. When you agree
with the Life in all things, no manifesta-
tion of that Life can be discordant to you.
When you co-operate with this Life in its
various forms of expression, you will find
all things working together for your
good. When you thus become conscious
of your oneness with all Life, you are
filled with and manifest the "Fruit of the
Spirit."
Therefore, resolve to make a practice
of applying God in all events, circum-
stances and conditions.
Always begin at the foundation, the ba-
sisthe Omnipresence, the One All, the
All One. Say, Since there is but one Sub-
stance, I am Spirit. Therefore, I am di-
vine. This not only includes my mind and
soul, but also my body. My conclusion is:
I am Spirit-substance, endowed with God-
nature. Therefore, to be true to myself I
must think, speak and act lovingly in all
circumstances and conditions. This I
must do without any thought of person-
ality; then every experience becomes a
stepping-stone into hieher and fuller con-
sciousness. I prove God's presence by
practicing it, and find that it meets every
requirement and satisfies every desire.
Questions en Lesson 6.
1. What is meant by application?
2. Repeat the Statement of The One Perfect
Mind.
3. What is Alind? Are there many minds?
4. What is true thought?
5. Then what are false or untrue thoughts?
6. What does the practice of Truth do for you?
7. Of what value are affirmations of Truth?
8. What is the secret of concord or agreement?
9. Do you practice applying God in all events,
circumstances and conditions?
10. What is the "fruit of the Spirit" resulting
therefrom?
LESSON VII
THE SILENCE
^JTHERE
IS AN INNER SOME-
l|L THINGan indwelling Presence
^^
which is the Source of all knowl-
edge. It is the Fount of Inspiration from
which all blessings flow. This is God. Its
purifying, vitalizing and illuminating in-
fluence is the Christ. Since the Christ is
the revelation of God, to know God we
must be open and responsive to this Light
of Truth. "There is none other name un-
der heaven given among men, whereby
we must be saved.'' That name, says Pe-
ter, is the name
Jesus
Christman con-
scious of God in him ; man conscious of
his Source, and therefore of his own di-
vinity
;
man conscious of his oneness with
Perfect Life, Perfect Intelligence, and
Perfect Substance.
Where and how shall we find this Light,
this Truth? Is there a method or way by
which one may develop or unfold this true
knowing or realization of Truth?
Revealed Truth
Jesus the Christ
says, "The kingdom of God is within

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you.'' Where you find the Kingdom of
God there will be found the Kingdom of
Heaven. It was to the within
Jesus
taught us to turnto "Our Father which
art in heaven," and not to some Presence
without and far away.
"The Lord thy God in the midst of thee
is mighty." Here, then, within yourself
will you find both prophecy and fulfill-
ment of every good and all good. It is the
Source, Substance, Life, Power and
Joy
of your being. By turning to this Pres-
ence within you, the very Essence of your
being, are your eyes opened to the Truth.
You begin to see, to know, to realize that
which God is, and therefore that which
you are. This awakening is called growth
or unfoldment.
The Silence is your Chamber of Peace.
Here you learn to know that God is All,
both invisible and visible. It gives you a
consciousness of the Allness of Good, and
nothing disturbs the harmony of your
thought, for you know God Rules. As
you learn, through practice, to still the
physical senses, all mental conceptions,
opinions and conclusions arising there-
from, you will begin to intuitively know
the Truth springing spontaneously from
the Perfect Mind within you. This inspi-
ration, intuition, this knowing is the
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Christ. "Awake, thou that sleepest, and
Christ shall give thee light."
Within you lies the fulfillment of every
desire of your heart, and the Power by
which it may be manifested. Learn to rec-
ognize this Reality within you by turning
to it often : not only in times of need and
stress, but ever keeping the attitude of
recognition and appreciation, you "pray
without ceasing, and in everything give
thanks."
Every ill condition is the evidence of an
agitated, distorted or confused mentality.
Very few "great" things disturb the
thought of the world; it is the little petty
things of every-day life that fret and
worry, impoverish and make sick. They
are the "little foxes that destroy the
vines."
To turn purposely from these things
and forget them for a time will restore
one's confidence, refresh his mentality,
quicken his spiritual perception, and thus
free him from all conception of weariness
of brain or body.
But recognizing the higher potency of
Prayer, the Silence is not only a means of
relaxation from sense beliefs, but the time
of renewed and enlarged spiritual under-
standing, so that the petty annoyances of
sense lose their power over you. You be-
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come "strong in the Lord and in the
power of His might" through your con-
scious unity with God, and "none of these
things move you" any more.
The Silence is the time or season of
Prayer, where you are renewed in thought
through the inspiration of Truth; where
you ask and of "His fullness" receive;
where you commune and rejoice with the
Father in the realization of Oneness.
We so often strive to enter the Silence
when we do not know what we are trying
to do. We pray and do not know how to
pray, and then wonder why we do not get
results. It is in the Silence that we get
into the very heart of things. If there is
no peace and happiness in the external to
you, shut your eyes and see them men-
tally, and you will begin to see them spir-
itually ; then they will begin to express in
and through you. The realm of the ideal
is the place where you learn that which
you are to realize. See God in the highest,
in the purest and the best, and the law of
God in expression will show forth these
things which you have seen. Think right,
think lovely things, and you will begin to
be the very picture of these things your-
self, for like begets like, and God is the
only true Thinker and therefore the only
Creator.
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Before you can become aware of this
-
Holy Presence
within you so as to hear
its "still small voice" and feel its harmon-
izing influence, it is necessary that the
outer or sense self be stilled. Every men-
tal conception of the seemingof appear-
ances, of feelings, of conditions, must be
dropped or forgotten for the time being,
else they will intrude and obscure your
higher spiritual vision of harmony, whole-
ness and perfection.
Therefore, the first step is preparatory
:
"Be still." This is an act of the will
;
a
determination to quiet yourself, to relax,
to rest, to be receptive.
Sit down quietly. Be still. Relax the
body by mentally letting go. Turn your
thought from the vexations and discords,
by direct control of your thought. Yes,
you can do this if you try, and the more
you try the more easy it becomes. Even
still your desires; simply be calm, serene,
restful. No special position of the body is
necessary ;- the main object is to quiet the
mentality, and open the soul to Truth.
The second step is Concentration. Now
you fix your attention upon the Omni-
presence, or some of its qualities or phases
of Being; such as: Love, Life, Peace,
Joy,
Strength, Health, Order, Wisdom,
etc. The purpose of such concentration is
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to shut out from your thoughts all that
seems not good or is apparently adverse.
In other words, the purpose of concentra-
tion is to so fix your attention upon the
Truth that that Truth will be revealed to
you in its fullness, and you thus be forever
freed from your former false mental con-
ceptions of its opposite.
Concentrates
:
Mind is expressing its nature (Love)
in everything.
My nature is Divine Love.
The Christ is the Light of my world.
Resolves
:
To think the thoughts of God, the
Good, only.
To let Love dissolve every hard con-
dition.
To be loving in my every thought,
word and deed.
This focusing your attention upon the
thing desired to be known is only a means
to the end. It is the opening the door of
your soul to the Christ. It is letting in
the sunshine of Truth. It is co-operating
with God in making manifest without that
which is within.
Paul emphasizes the value of concen-
tration: "Whatsoever things are true
...
honest . . . just . . .
pure
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. . . lovely ... of good report ; any
virtue . . . any praise
think on these
things." Why? Because in thinking on
these things you form mental images of
realities, of God, and since God is all there
is, then all other mental conceptions, every
belief and opinion contrary or adverse to
the Truth, is eliminated from thought;
while through concentration upon the
Truth it grows, expands, enlarges, un-
foldsuntil finally you are fully aware of
its Reality, Substance and Nature, which
awareness is Consciousness. For, after
all, this is the most essential lessonto
become conscious of God. Having found
God there, you will see God as the only
Presence and Power in all the universe.
The third step is Waiting for Wisdom.
Do not be anxious ; do not hurry. Keep
calm, serene, and receptive. Wait! Be
expectant, but do not try to force realiza-
tion. "Rest in the Lord, and wait pa-
tiently for him." "Commit thy way unto
the Lord ; trust also in him ; and he shall
bring it to pass."
The fourth purpose of the Silence is
Realization. This means to see the Real-
ity, the Truth, and in seeing you know.
"Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth
shall make you free." When you have be-
come aware of the Truth of wholeness
you are freed from the sense confusion,
called sickness. When you know God as
the fullness of all, and "Of his fullness
have all we received," the belief in the
lack of any good thinglife, love, health,
strength, prosperity, joywill have van-
ished into nothingness from whence it
came.
Finally, the Silence is for the purpose
of Communion. This arises from the con-
sciousness of oneness with God, and there-
fore inheriting the same nature, qualities
and characteristics. Hence the joy of con-
scious unity. You are the prodigal re-
turned home, and are now welcomed by
the Father. What joy! No more separa-
tion, no more wandering in darkness,
doubt and suffering in sense confusion,
but forever more at home where the full-
ness of all Good is realized and enjoyed.
When you enter the Silence you should
relax, let go, give up, forget. You should
have at least one period of Silence each
day for your own good. If you can have
but one, take it in the morning before
your thoughts are engrossed in the affairs
of the day, while the mentality is open
and receptive.
Some schools of New Thought teach
that one should remain in the silence an
hour or a half hour, but we do not find
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that the best way. It is best to remain in
the Silence only so long as you are keenly
interested.
Just
as soon as you begin to
get restless or lose interest, and begin
to think of other things, when you are not
wholly absorbed in the purpose for which
you enter the Silence, then it is better to
stop. After awhile take another short pe-
riod of Silence, and you will find that each
time it becomes easier, until at any time
or in the midst of your work you can have
a refreshing Silence. Then you begin to
know what Paul meant by "praying with-
out ceasing." It makes all of life beautiful
and good and inspiring. You begin to see
the glories of heaven right here and now.
1. Where is your source of knowledge?
2. What is necessary upon your part to know
Truth?
3. What is meant by The Silence?
4. To be conscious of the intuitions of Truth,
what must you do?
5. Why should you think only of the ideal in
your times of silence?
6. What is the meaning of "realization" ?
7. How can you dispel sense conditions?
8. Is it necessary to deny the seemingly adverse
conditions? Why not?
9. How often should you enter the Silence, and
how long should you remain in it?
10. Explain the meaning of communion.
LESSON VIII
TRUE PRAYER
7(Z
AVING LEARNED HOW to en-
iJU
ter the
usecret
piace f the Mst
^y
High," and how to still the per-
sonal thought of self and environment,
that we may be open and receptive to the
inspiration of Truth from within; how to
realize the Presence of God through con-
centration and mediation, and finally com-
mune with "Our Father,
,,
we are now
ready to Pray. But what is Prayer, and
how shall we pray aright? What is
meant by that "effectual fervent prayer"
that "availeth much"?
Prayer, in a general sense, is to make
request with earnestness or zeal for some-
thing desired; a wish for anything, a sin-
cere desire, a longing, a reaching out after
something; whether that thing be mate-
rial, mental or spiritual. Thus we find
prayers that are ignorant, as well as wise
prayers
;
good prayers, and bad ones
;
poor
prayers, and good ones; worthless pray-
ers, and true prayers. All men pray: the
saloon keeper prays as earnestly for suc-
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cess in his business as does the preacher
for success in his spiritual work; but their
prayers are different.
We hear on every hand the great ne-
cessity for prayer, and people are urged
to pray, pray, pray. They already pray;
what they really need is to know how to
pray aright. The man who believes that
one can succeed only as another fails,
just as earnestly prays for the failure of
his competitor as he does directly for his
own success. This is ignorant prayer, the
prayer of selfishness, unkindness, injus-
tice; yet it fulfills the general definition
or notion of prayer.
There is a higher conception of Prayer,
which the religious thought of the world
has popularized : the prayer of supplica-
tion, of beseeching, pleading, entreating,
begging for whatever we might desire
from a Supreme Being who may or may
not grant our request, as it pleases Him.
This is a step higher than the darkened
sense prayer of pure personal selfishness,
for this recognizes a Source from which
all supply of Good is derived. Yet this is
not the highest form of prayer.
Because all mental action is called
thinking, whether that be personal (men-
tal) or universal (spiritual), it is neces-
sary to designate right thinking, in con-
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trast to that of mental conceptions, as
true thinking; so also is it necessary to
designate the right mode or attitude of
Prayer from all other forms of prayer by
the term true prayer.
Evidently this was perceived by the
disciples of
Jesus, two thousand years
ago, for we read: "One of his disciples
said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as
John
also taught his disciples." And
Je-
sus taught in that lesson the true prayer,
the prayer that accomplishesthe effect-
ual prayer.
"After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed
is Thy name. Thy kingdom is come ; thy
will is done on earth as it is in heaven.
Thou givest us each day our daily bread.
Thou forgivest our debts as we forgive
our debtors. Thou leadest us not into
temptation ; but dost deliver us from all
evil ; for thine is the kingdom, the power,
and the glory, forever. Amen."
It was distinctly a prayer of affirma-
tion of the Truth of Being.
Jesus
spoke
in the Aramic tongue, the language or
dialect of the Semitic known as "Pales-
tinian Aramaic." This is now a dead lan-
guage, but when in use was peculiar in
this respect: it had neither past nor fu-
ture tenses. There was no other way of
speaking of anything except as in the
present. Therefore, literally, the prayer
as given us as a model by
Jesus
is one of
present recognition of fact, of reality. Its
change of form to that of petition was
made by translators of the original manu-
scripts, to conform to their beliefs and
opinions.
This seemingly new, but original, form
of Prayer is the truest, highest order of
prayer. It is the prayer of recognition, of
appreciation, of co-operation. "Our
Father" is the One Universal Source;
"that which is born of Spirit is Spirit
;"
of His Substance are we made, and of His
fullness have we all received. Only when
the mentality (the realm of personal
thought) is stilled, when we are con-
sciously in tune with the Infinite, in the
realm of perfect peace and harmony
"in
heaven"can this truth be realized, for
God is Love.
Holy, whole, complete, perfect, is the
nature, qualities, characteristics of God.
This is the meaning of "name." Realizing
that "like begets like," then is the effect
seen embodying its cause. Not only does
God reign supreme in the Universe, but
this is the Only Power; therefore the
kingdom of God is now here, and His will
is done on earth. We do not always see it
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because of our mental blindness, but God
is running this Universe through Infinite
Intelligence, Law, and Love. As we at-
tune ourselves to the Universal, as we
get into that harmonious realm called
heaven, then do we perceive the Presence
of God in all things, affairs and condi-
tions.
This Source is our Storehouse of All
Good. It is our Infinite Bank of Supply.
As soon as we realize our rightful inheri-
tance, then are we privileged to draw
upon its fullness. "All that the Father
hath is mine"is yours, each and every
one of us ; for "Hath not one God created
us? have we not all one Father?" There-
fore are we supplied, God being the
Source and Substance of "our daily
bread."
Only as we co-operate, as we fulfill, are
we entitled to the blessings of the Law.
As we do unto others so do we receive.
As we give, to us is given, whether that
be love, strength, courage, or material
sustenance. As we forgive, holding the
attitude of oneness, that which we for-
give in another we forgive ourselves ; and
on the contrary, that which we bind upon
another we bind upon ourselves. "For-
give, and ye shall be forgiven."
Recognizing the nature of God, we
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readily see that we are led into tempta-
tion and sin by our own ignorant and
false beliefs, opinions and desires; and w
r
e
freely make confession that all our suffer-
ings are the result of our misguided
thought, with which Perfect Mind, "Our
Father," had nothing to do. But when
we turn to the Light (for "God is Light,
in whom there is no darkness at all"
)
then do we know of a truth that our mis-
beliefs, our sense dreams, are "vain imag-
inings'' which the Light of Truth dispels,
and we are delivered from all evil. There
is but One Reality, One Presence, One
Power: to Him, to It, belongs all the
praise, now and forever.
Since Affirmation of the Truth, and its
practical application, is the highest form
of Prayer, what, then, is the purpose of
"asking"? "Ask, and ye shall receive:
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall
be opened unto you." This is the recep-
tive attitude, your willingness and readi-
ness to receive. In other words, desire,
aspiration, prayer, opens your mentality
to see and know the Truth. It is the turn-
ing to the Light that dispels all shadows.
Prayer, therefore, changes our attitude,
not God. It neither induces God to give
us anything or do anything for us; but
it does open our eyes to see that for which
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we have longedthe Good, the True, the
Perfectis now ours, and has always
been ours, but we knew it not.
Emerson had this enlarged vision of
Prayer: "Prayer is the contemplation of
the facts of life from the highest point of
view. It is a soliloquy of a beholding and
jubilant soul. It is the Spirit of God pro-
nouncing his works Good."
The more you pray aright, the more
you expand in consciousness; the more
of His "fullness" do you perceive, realize
and enjoy. So pray, pray earnestly, de-
voutly; ever aspire, onward and upward;
but unless you use what you already have
perceived, you will not be prepared for
further realization. Your prayer there-
fore must be a living prayer; and such is
the Prayer of Divine Science.
This True Prayer is receptiveness to
the Truth, the Earnest Aspiration for
Truth, the Affirmation of Truth, Thank-
fulness for Truth, and the Living of the
Truth. Such a prayer is fraught with Di-
vine Power, and the "signs" spoken of by
Jesus
are fulfilled by it : "In my name
shall they cast out devils; they shall
speak with new tongues ; they shall take
up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them ; they shall
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lay hands on the sick, and they shall re-
cover."
The Larger Prayer.
At first I prayed for Light:
Could I but see the way,
How gladly, swiftly would I walk
To everlasting Day.
And next I prayed for Strength:
That I might tread the road
With firm, unfaltering feet, and win
The heaven's serene abode.
And then I asked for Faith :
Could I but trust my God,
I'd live enfolded in His peace
Though foes were all abroad.
But now I pray for Love:
True love to God and man;
A living love that will not fail
However deep His plan:
And Light and Strength and Faith
Are opening everywhere
!
God only waited for me till
I prayed the larger prayer.
Mrs. E. D. Cheney.
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1. On entering the Silence, what do you "still"?
2. What is prayer, in the general thought of it?
3. What, then, is true prayer?
4. What is the highest form of prayer?
5. Why did Jesus speak in the present tense
when teaching his disciples how to pray?
6. What is the starting-point or first step in
prayer?
7. What leads you into temptation?
8. Of what value is prayer?
9. How often should you pray?
10. Learn "The Larger Prayer" and practice it.
LESSON IX
THE POWER OF THE WORD
ALL
ARE FAMILIAR with the
statement, "A word is the sign of
an Idea." But what is an Idea?
Words are used so loosely nowadays that
it is well for us to pause and see what a
word really means before we employ it..
Divine Science lays much emphasis upon
the right w
T
ord in the right place. It does
not use "belief" and "faith" as synonyms;
nor "idea" and "thought." It uses "Con-
sciousness" only in reference to knowl-
edge of Truth, as the word means
"Knowing with God
;"
and can not, there-
fore, be applied to personal conceptions,
opinions, and beliefssuch as "sense con-
sciousness," "consciousness of sin, pain,
sickness," etc.
To be "conscious" means to be aware
to knowthat which really is, and that
is Truth or God. You may believethat
is, mentally imagine in your personal
thought, all sorts of ills, and because you
thus mentally see them, they seem real
to you. But these mental pictures are
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only your interpretations, or rather, mis-
interpretations, of facts; for since God is
the only Reality, invisible and visible, and
since God is the Omnipresence, the One
and Only Presence, Life, Intelligence and
Substanceeverywhere, then everything
not Good must of necessity be the outpic-
turing of mental beliefs, fears, supersti-
tion, "vain imaginings"in a word,
"mental delusions."
Facts, conditions, appearances, are to
you according to your interpretation or
thought of them. This is the truth per-
ceived by Paul when he declared, "I am
persuaded that there is nothing unclean
of itself; but to him that esteemeth
(thinks or interprets) a thing to be un-
clean, to him it is unclean."
How important, then, to learn to real-
ize that the One Perfect Mind thinks in
us and acts through us as our very selves
;
that Truth is revealing in us only that
which is Real and True ; for, as said
Jo-
seph, "Do not interpretations belong to
God?" That is, only through Divine Wis-
dom, that inner illumination of Spirit
called Intuition or Inspiration, are you
enabled to perceive and know the Truth
of anything.
An Idea being the essence of true see-
ing (the word Idea being derived from a
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Greek word meaning "to see"), it is an
inner conception of any perfection, any
fact, any reality, any truth.
As such, it becomes both a true image
and an archetype, or the original pattern
and model; a real likeness or representa-
tion, and the embodiment of the essential
nature or character of Being, God or
Truth.
The metaphysician, Martineau, says:
"Ideas, in their pre-existence, are the
archetypes of created things; in their em-
bodiment are the essences of things; and
in their relation to us are what we know
of things/'
Since Cause must itself constitute the
Effect, we see that the true Word is no
longer only a' sign of an Idea, but is itself
the Idea. Mindthe Sour.ce; Thought
the activity of Mind ; Wordthe Result

or Effect of Mind ; not different things,
but all Oneand that one God.
Thus you understand the mystery of
John's statement : "In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. The same was
in the beginning with God. All things
were made by him
;
and without him w
r
as
not anything made that was made."
Infinite, Perfect Mind, through its own
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activity, Thought, expresses itself as
Word or Body.
Divine Mind, then, is the only Creator.
Man does notcan notcreate anything
through his thought. The mission of in-
dividual thought is to correctly see and
thus to correctly interpret the Truth of
the universe, which includes man himself.
This is the revelation of Truth as
taught by Divine Science: All substance
is Spirit, therefore perfect. You do not
remake nor rebuild your body through
thought. You do not create health
through right thinking, nor disease
through wrong thinking. You do not
make success and happiness nor their op-
posites by thought. Personal thought is
but an interpreter. As you mentally pic-
ture, think, so you see or interpret.
Think thoughts of anger, your words will
be of anger, and unpleasant results will
follow; and you see your own thought-
image in every direction you turn. Think
thoughts of love, followed by words and
deeds of love, and harmony prevails; and
love w
r
ill fill your vision.
Your thought or word does not make
either condition. In the former attitude
it obscures, beclouds, and misinterprets
the true nature of your Being; while in
the latter case it clarifies, purifies and cor-
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rectly interprets the Reality of yourself,
which was always there but unrecog-
nized.
Your "state of health/' your circum-
stances, your environment, the degree of
your success, and all outer conditions, are
but evidences of the degree of your spir-
itual understanding, and readily indicate
the manner of your interpretation. As a
man thinketh, so he interprets.
The Power of the Word is the Power
of God which you perceive and realize as
acting through you as thought, word and
deed. As you think in conformity with
Truth, Spirit will reveal to you and mani-
fest through you its fullnessits fullness
of Life, Intelligence, Love,
Powder,
Joy,
SupplyPerfection.
Practice the recognition of the One
Presence daily, hourly, constantly. Not
only think it, but speak it for yourself,
for all, and for all things. So long as you
think of the One Presence and Power
there will be no place or opportunity in
your mentality for anything adverse. As
soon as this attitude becomes settled,
fixeda habit, you will find that you have
been lifted out of all your beliefs in igno-
rance, sin, lack, suffering, etc.
What has made this wondrous change?
The Power of the Word, the Power of
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Truth, meeting the response of your
awakening soul, your spiritual recogni-
tion and comprehension. Thus seeing
and knowing the Truth, you become one
with it, and enjoy it and its benefits for-
ever.
Moreover, when you are in tune with
the Infinite, you become the minister or
ambassadorthe channelthrough which
the Divine Mind will speak to others, for
your thoughts will then be true, and
hence the Word of God. You will be
blessing humanity by thinking and speak-
ing the Truth about God and therefore
about man, for the only way to speak
true, strong words, is to think true, strong
thoughts of Truth; for like begets like.
Thoughts for Practice.
I think God's thoughtsTruthafter
Him.
My words are the Words of Truth,
hence are fraught with Power to enlight-
en, heal and bless.
I think, speak and live my highest
vision of Truth.
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1. What does "consciousness" mean?
2. What is the difference between knowledge
and belief?
3. Explain the difference between "idea" and
"thought."
4. How does an idea become manifest?
5. Does individual thought create?
6. What is a word? What is meant by "The
Word"?
7. When does "The Word" become your word?
8. What effect does your thought or word have?
9. When do you speak only strong true words?
10. Explain, "As a man thinketh, so is he."
LESSON X
HEALTH AND HEALING
The Reality of Health.
INCE GOD IS WHOLENESS, Or-
der and Harmony is the true State
of Being*. This is the Truth of God
the Source, and therefore of all creation,
the Effect or Manifestation; for you can
not divide God. the Cause inhering in the
Effect and actually constituting it. The
invisible and the visible are not diverse,
but onea Uni-verse. The seen and the
unseen are onethe outer and the inner.
That which is true of God invisible is true
of God visible.
Since God is the changeless Reality of
Wholeness, Completeness, Perfection,
this Reality is made visible in all manifes-
tation to the eye that is responsive to the
Light of Truth. This is the attitude
spoken of by
Jesus
when he said, "If thine
eye be single" (seeing only the Reality of
Goodness and Truth) "thy whole body
shall be full of light."
Since God is the changeless Reality of
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Order and Harmony, then to the degree
that we see God in the visible do we rec-
ognize that normal, natural condition or
state called Health.
Health is eternal and changeless. It is
the true state of each and every one.
Health, the normal, natural state of Be-
ing, means to be well, whole, sound,
poised, balanced, vigorous, peaceful, har-
moniousthe realization of all the quali-
ties of Perfection or Completeness.
Explanation of Sickness.
You have heard people say that they
were in "poor health" or "ill health."
There can be no such state or condition.
Health can never be ill, for in such case it
would no longer be health.
To be sick is but an evidence of an un-
illumined mentality. In other words, peo-
ple get sick because they do not see the
Truth of themselves. Therefore igno-
rance is the cause of disease. Since igno-
rance is the lack of knowledge, that is
nothing, there is no actual cause for dis-

ease : it has no basis, truth or realitv.
There is therefore no physical causation.
Then what is it and its occasion?
The belief in disease is the disease. It
is but a mental conception, not a truth. It
is sense thought, not spiritual. It is dark-
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ness, not light; ignorance, not knowledge.
It accepts the seeming, the appearance,
as real in and of itself, with qualities and
powers of its own, which are often 'ad-
verse to the good. This is the work of
personal thought, called by Paul the "car-
nal mind" which is ever at variance with
and wars against the Spiritthe Truth.
When one sees not the Truth of Being,
but lives in the realm of effect, in the
seeming, in appearances, this attitude is
of the mentality or personal thinking.
(This is not real or true thinking, for
Thinking is the action of Mind, which is
perfect and forms only true Ideas, but be-
cause personal thinking imitates the same
process of formulating images, we must
use -the word "thinking" because of the
lack of a better word acceptable to our
common language; but always qualifying
or explaining it by the use of the adjec-
tive "true" or "right" when referring to
real Thought, and "false," "wrong," or
"personal" thought when referring to the
mental action of belief, opinion, etc.)
This realm of the mentality
personal
thinkingis shallow, hollow and unsta-
ble. It judges from appearances, forms
wrong opinions and untrue conclusions
;
and by its own judgments inflicts upon
itself limitation, sickness, suffering and
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death. Thus illness is the evidence of im-
perfect, wrong, personal thought.
If one mentally images disease, he not
only sees it all about him, but is subject
to it himself: for "as a man thinketh, so
is he." We do not deny the appearance,
but know that it is but the evidence that
one has not been illumined by the Truth;
that he has not seen or thought aright.
Sickness is the result of sick thoughts.
Physical harmony, or health, is the truth
of the body, but so long as one believes it
subject to adverse or evil influences, his
mental interpretation pictures for it
weakness, sickness, limitation.
Here, then, is the only place for healing
in the mentality. Mind is always per-
fect, whole, and needs no changing; in-
deed, it can not be changed. But the
plane of personal thoughtthe mentality
has been obscured and encumbered
with untrue conceptions, beliefs, "vain
imaginings," until the Truth is not per-
ceived, felt and known.
The Process of Healing.
The process of healing is not a change
in Consciousness, for that is the Illumina-
tion of TruthGodwhich ever shines
for all. The transformation from igno-
rance to knowledge, from darkness to
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light, from error to Truth, is a process in
the thought or mentality of man, It is
the removing of the sense-deluding gog-
gles from our eyes, the opening of men-
tality's windows to the sunlight of Truth.
Truth is Truth. No amount of untrue
thinking can change the eternal state of
your being. You are the embodiment
and expression of Wholeness, Harmony,
Health. Your thoughts of health do not
create health, neither do your thoughts
of disease create sickness. Mentality is
but an interpreter, and according to your
interpretation do you enjoy the one or
suffer the other.
The work of thoughttrue Thought
is to think ''God's Thoughts after Him,"

and thus interpret correctly, whereby we
know the Truth of Wholeness and are
one with it. It is Infinite Perfect Mind
thinking in us as our very selves. Oh the
plane of mentality
personal thinking
however, we obscure our vision of this

Mind in us by imaging our personal con-
ceptions, beliefs, opinions, etc., and thus
see all things through these colored
glasses of sense, and interpret accord-
ingly. True thinking clarifies our vision,
while personal or false thinking obscures,
beclouds.
The question of realizing Health is
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simply a matter of clear spiritual percep-
tion. Light reveals the Truth. The more
we know of Truth the more perfect and
harmonious we see our bodies, environ-
ment, etc. Health is being revealed to us
just as rapidly and as fully as we open
our eyes to the Truth.
To become conscious of any Truth, you
must start from the fundamental basis or
fact : God is All there Is, both invisible
and visible. To know this is to know
omnipresent Health
Wholeness and
Harmony, vitalized by Life, Love and
Power.
The secret of Health lies largely in
one's attitude. How are you thinking?
How are you looking at things ? Are you
judging from appearances, your mental
conceptions of them, or from the basis of
Truth, which is "righteous judgment"?
Are you "double-minded," that is, do you
believe that everything must have its op-
posite? that if there is good, there must
also be bad?health and sickness, opu-
lence and poverty, happiness and misery?
If so, you are partaking of the Tree of
Duality, the forbidden tree. If so, is it
any wonder you have mixed conditions in
your life? The more you give place in
your thought to evil, adversity, disease,
etc., the more will von see of them: be--
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cause these are the goggles (false men-
tal conceptions) through which and by
which you see these untrue images.
Healing is the process of attainment or
realization of the eternal state of our be-
ing. It is a transformation in thought,
from the ignorance of belief to a knowl-
edge of Truth. This is the process indi-
cated by Paul: "Be ye transformed by
the renewing of your thought.
5
'
It drops
all short-coming (sin) for righteousness;
weakness and limitation for the fullness
of strength and vigor
;
poverty and dis-
tress for opulence and satisfaction
;
worry and disease for peace and harmony.
Such is the result of spiritual enlighten-
mentthe truest, purest and highest
method of healing.
The Scope of Healing.
Yet healing does not relate merely to
physical wholeness. It must first be an
inner or spiritual perception, and this
then applies to every phase of Life's ex-
pressions. As w
r
e see more and more of
the truths of Life w
r
e are evolving into a
fuller, freer and better realization of
Wholeness and Harmony, this evolution
being the process called Healing, which
is but another name for Unfoldment.
One thing alone rights any condition
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the consciousness of the Presence of God.
This means seeing all that God is right
there where discord seemed so evident.
There is but one way by or through
which we may attain to this realization
receptiveness to Truth. Desire is the in-

centive, prayer the door, faith and words
the means or method which lead to reali-
zation.
"Hold fast the form of sound words"
implies the necessity of being steadfast
to the good, pure, wholesome, strong,
sound thoughts or ideals. Adhering
steadfastlv to our highest vision of Truth,
there will be no room in our mentality
for anything adverse, for no useless or
idle thought. Therefore it profits little,
and may be a hindrance to clear percep-
tion, to look for correspondences, for the
cause or occasion of any shortcoming.
Our first thought should be the Perfec-
tion of the Whole (God). Then every
thought of any phase or condition or en-
vironment, or of body or any of its mem-
bers, will be seen in the same Light ; for
the Truth of God is the Truth of Man.
Since God is perfect, so must His creation
be; for Cause and Effect are one; like be-
gets like.
Since there is no physical causation for
disease, this condition or appearance
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must be handled where it is conceived
in the personal thought or belief. There-

fore, to relieve yourself of any seeming ill
condition, you must rid your mentality
of the "seeming" in thought. This can be
done only by knowing the Truth. Prac-
tice seeing but One Presence and Power
the Good, which is Life, Health, Peace,
Intelligence, Love and
Joy
in yourself,
in every event, circumstance and condi-
tion.
Keep up this practice daily until you
form a thought-habit of seeing only
Health, Wholeness, Soundness, Perfec-
tion everywherefull, free and abundant.
If, because of former habits of wrong
thought, adverse "seemings" thrust them-
selves before you, ignore them, refuse to
give them any recognition or sanction, by
the more firmly adhering to the Reality
or Truth revealed to you. You may not
be able to explain the "why" of these ap-
pearances, even to yourself. Don't try
to do it. If you do, you admit, at least to
a degree, that they are so. Simply turn
your thought from them, and filling your
mentality with the good and true, there
will be no room for them to further dis-
tress or annoy youand thus are you
transformed; "old things pass away: be-
hold, all things have become new."
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This is the process, when applied to the
Self and its avenue of expressionthe
body, which is known as Healing. When
applied to the mentality, it is called Un-
foldment. And when related to the soul,
it is termed Evolution. By whatever
name it is known, it is the process
through which we pass from darkness to
light, from ignorance to knowledge, from
sense to Spirit.
1. What does wholeness comprise?
2. What is health?
3. How is the realization of health attained?
4. Can you lose your health?
5. What is the explanation of sickness?
6. What is disease? Is there any physical cause
for it?
7. Where does all healing take place? What
heals?
8. State the process of healing.
9. When does the appearance of disease dis-
appear?
10. Does healing relate only to the physical?
What does it include?
LESSON XI
SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL
PROSPERITY
W
ff/*t%F-HIS FULLNESS HAVE
ALL
WE RECEIVED." This
was Paul's clear perception of
the truth of each one. He who know
T
s
this truth for himself can have no sense
of lack; for, indeed, all deficiency or lack
is but a sense or mental condition which
is the effect of imperfect or wrong
thought and belief.
Little need be said about poverty.
Most people have felt its pangs of suffer-
ing, its cruel tyranny, its strangling grip
upon the throat of hope and aspiration.
It is the one, and the greatest, disease
common to all humanity. It is not a real-
ity, but a nightmare ! It is not a truth,
but a lie ! The same thing may be said of
any so-called physical disease, and there-
fore Poverty and Disease are one and the
same.
Remember, there is no physical causa-
tion
;
likewise there is no physical disease.
All beliefs in discord, sin, sickness and
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poverty (being beliefs) must necessarily
be mental. A belief is a mental supposi-
tion in which certain qualities and powers
are attributed to certain things. But the
belief does not make the thing true.
Truth is changeless; it is permanent
and reliable, and your beliefs about it can
not affect it. The only thing your beliefs
affect is your attitude: if they are of the
good, they give you peace, confidence,
and assurance ; if of evil, you are dis-
turbed by doubt, uncertainty and fear.
The belief in the Good is the invitation of
Truth to apply it, to put it into practice,
which transforms it into Faith ; and Faith
"removes mountains"every sense bond-
age and affliction.
If you think any lack, of yourself or
your circumstances, or of anyone else ; if
you mentally picture any kind of lack
anywhere, it is this thought-image which
hides from your true vision the Fullness
of Supply; your belief acting as a screen
upon which is painted the pictures of suf-
fering and distress resulting from such
seeming lack.
Stop right here and know once and for
all that these pictures on your mental
screen are only the paintings of your im-
agination, and have no truth or reality.
You feel that your conditions of lack are
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anything but imaginary; that they are so
evident that they must be real? Then let
us dismiss for a few minutes these appar-
ent conditions while we go back and
search for a sure and stable foundation
upon which to stand.
The only proper place to begin any-
thing is at the Foundation or Basis.
Therefore, to understand Prosperity, we
must begin with the Source; then follow-
ing its laws of expression, find the method
of its manifestation in our affairs.
Turn your thought from the without
to the within. Let go of the stress of the
outer, and calmly meditate upon the
Great Presence which gave Being to you
and all things. It is the Only Source, and It
is the Only Substance. This Presence is
everywhere ; there can be no place where
it is not; therefore, It is the Omnipres-
ence, "whose presence bright all space
doth occupy, all motions guide." That
which is visible came into expression
from the invisibleboth the seen and the
unseen being One SubstanceSpirit.
As you thus think, you will begin to see
that this Living Substance is the Source
and Supply of your beingspiritually,
mentally and physically. The whole in-
cludes all its parts, and your being in its
entirety is the product or expression of
10Q divine science : knowledge of truth
God. Now, God is Spirit, and Spirit is
the only Substance, visible and invisible.
It is the all-pervading Presence above,
beneath, around and within, and itself
constitutes the so-called material.
God is therefore that Reality upon
which all things rest or depend for exist-
encethe foundation, the basis, the all-
inclusive Reality of all that is!
Since God is Spirit, spirituality means
to be like God ; conscious of Truth. Pros-
perity then means enlargement or unfold-
ment in consciousness. It is the evolve-
ment of the nature, capacity and poten-
tialities of Being in the individual.
Thus do we find that Spiritual Pros-
perity is the only true success. Only
through knowledge can you truly have
and enjoy the Fullness of Good, whether
that be health, happiness or success.
Through knowing Truth you thrive, suc-
ceed, prosper, and advance in all good
and desirable things. It is the only Law
of Success.
"Seek first the Kingdom of God and
His righteousness, and all these things
shall be added unto you," is the simple
yet fundamental basis of Prosperity as
given us by the divinely-illumined Jesus.
If you desire to be truly successfulthat
is, if you wish to gain or advance in any-
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thing good, and have full appreciation
and enjoyment of that attainmentthen
faithfully observe that word "first/'
Write it in capitals; for the only sure and
abiding foundation is the knowledge and
acceptance of the One Presence and
Power as your Life, Intelligence, Love,
Joy
and Powerwhich is the Kingdom
of God. Its "righteousness" is tightness,
order, harmony, justice, and the Law by
which it expresses. Get this understand-
ing, eliminating personal selfish desires,
opening yourself to the realization of
Good only, and you will have opened the
doors to Prosperity in every direction.
The outer evidences will necessarily fol-
low
"all these things shall be added unto

you/
5
Mentality
the personal thought
looks to its own efforts for success. It

may gain money, fame, things, and have
many possessions; but, lacking the con-
sciousness of that which they but repre-
sent or symbolize, the personal thinker
feeds only upon husks, the chaff. The
personal thought is, in effect, the non-
recognition or a denial of God, and the
praise of self.
Job
declared : "If I have made gold my
hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou
art my confidence; if I rejoiced because
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H
my wealth was great, and because mine
hand had gotten much; this also were an
iniquity to be punished by the judge: for
I should have denied the God that is
above."
Jesus, conscious of Truth, said,
"A
man's life
consisteth not in the abundance
of the things which he possesseth." He
likened the one who thought only of ma-
terial gain to a fool, saying, "So is he that
laveth up treasure for himself and is not
rich toward God."
Then learn this lesson well : God is not
only the Source of all things, but the very
constituency of Prosperity. Seek the
Kingdom of God and the Law of its Ex-
pression, giving yourself fully and unre-
servedly to it, and then you will joyfully
and consciously acclaim with
Jesus, "All
that the Father hath is mine." Then will
you know that of His Fullness have you
received.
In the old Mosaic law we read this
statement of principle : "Beware that
thou forget not the Lord thy God . . .
and say in thine heart. My power and the
might of mine hand hath gotten me this
wealth; but thou shalt remember the
Lord thy God : for it is he that hath given
thee power to get wealth."
Why do you lack any good thing? Be-
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cause you have not followed the Lord
your God with a whole heart ; that is, you
have mentally believed in limitation, in-
justice, theft, under-supplyall these sub-
tle suggestions of the perver.se personal
thought, called the adversary or devil.
To this extent you have turned your back
on Truth, your face away from the Light
;
and as a result see these false images of
race and personal belief. So long as you
depend upon such appearances as facts,
just so long will you remain in bondage
to sense delusion; although, as a matter
of fact, there is no more truth in poverty
and lack than in the horrible dream at
night. When you awaken to the Truth
you will then know the nothingness of
both these sense dreams, because the
Light of Truth will reveal unto you your
divine inheritance
"heirs of God, and

joint-heirs with Christ/'
You have a right to all material supply
you can wisely use and enjoy. It is not
only your divine right, through your
unity and co-operation w
r
ith God, to have
sufficient to sustain your body, but for
every comfort and enjoyment of this pres-
ent worldfor is it not God's own crea-
tion, made for you and me?
But do not attempt to hoard. Use that
which you have wisely, but without fear,
knowing that God not only shall but now
supplies all your needs. Do not lay stress
upon the material, for it is but the symbol
of God's bounty. Hence Solomon advises :
"Labor not to be rich: cease from thine
own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes
upon that which is not? for riches cer-
tainly make themselves wings."
In the recognition of the Omnipresence
you are open to the inflow of Supply
from every direction. Do not clog up the
channel by attempting to store it away.
"Charge them that are rich in this world,"
wrote Paul to Titus, "that they be not
highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches,
but in the Living God, who giveth us
richly all things to enjoy."
It is therefore evident that material
prosperity is really dependent upon spir-
itual prosperity. Therefore, do not per-
mit the present seeming limitations to
make you sad or discouraged; above all,
refuse to permit yourself to worry and
fear, for these things only bind your
thought the tighter. But you ask, How?
There is but one way : Turn to God your
Father. Trust in Him. Open yourself to
the Light and Inspiration of Truththe
Christ. Affirm your Oneness with God,
and that you are Now filled and surround-
ed with the Fullness of God. Then wait
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patiently, faithfully, without wavering,
ever living to your highest and doing
your very best, which is co-operation, and
you can not fail to demonstrate the Law
of Prosperity both spiritually and mate-
rially.
1. What is the occasion for any sense of lack?
2. What has one's attitude of thought to do
with his circumstances or condition?
3. What is the difference between poverty and
any other disease?
4. Why do you lack any good thing?
5. What power does belief in poverty and fail-
ure have?
6. What is the only true success?
7. What does it include?
8. How may it be realized or attained?
9. To how much of "His Fullness" are you en-
titled ?
10. What is the Law through which supply is
manifested?
LESSON XII
STEADFASTNESS TO TRUTH
TEADFASTNESS means to be
firmly fixed in faith and devotion,
constant, steady, loyal. Having
perceived the fundamental principles of
Being which are absolutely necessary for
a fully rounded out and effective exist-
ence, it is incumbent upon each one to
apply these principles to every detail of
life. Only through application and use
can you reap the benefit of the truths to
which you have given recognition and
assent.
Steadfastness in thought and deed are
as essential to spiritual unfoldment as it
is to the success of any external business
enterprise.
It seems so easy, because of the preva-
lent race thought habit, to vacillate and
waver through doubt, fear and worry.
This makes one unsettled, unsteady, va-
riable and irresolute, which accounts for
so many failures in the business world.
The outer or external being but the in-
terpretation of one's inner thought or at-
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titude, it is evident that our main atten-
tion should be given to our manner of
thinking. Once having been convinced of
the Truth, and understanding the method
of its application, through its constant
and steadfast use we can attain the reali-
zation of the fulfillment of all our desires
and aspirations.
It is therefore with a heart of earnest-
ness that I urge you in the words of Paul
:
"Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit
you like men, be strong." "That ye hence-
forth be no more children, tossed to and
fro, and carried about with every wind
of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness."
You have already accepted the one and
only sure foundationthe Omnipresence.
Adhere to its principles of growth or un-
foldment. Put it thoroughly to the test.
Use it in your home, in your business, in
your social relations, as well as in your
church.
No matter what others may think or
say, see that you stand firmly, resolutely,
steadfastly by that w
T
hich you inwardly
feel to be right and true. If you can not
meet their opposition or questionings as
yet convincingly, keep still; do not permit
yourself to doubt or w
r
aver. If others per-
sist in claiming that evil is real, keep af-
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firming and reaffirming to yourself the
truth that "Only the Good is True," and
continue looking for and practicing the
Good until your very presence will banish
the thought of evil in all those who come
in contact with your thought.
For your individual progress, "Prove
all things; hold fast that which is good."
What has the Truth as taught by Divine
Science, when used, done for youin
your health, home, associations, business?
Have you not been "transformed by the
renewing of your mind"
in your
thought, in your disposition, in all your
affairsliterally beoming a "new crea-
ture in Christ"? Then hold fast that
which is good, and let all else go.
Secondary benefits of steadfastness ac-
crue to the class, or society, or state, but
the chief benefits are to the individual.
As is the individual so is the nation. As
one part of the body suffers, the whole
body suffers with it. Your loyalty to
Truth is a pervading influence, uplifting
and blessing the entire world.
Your knowledge of Truth calls you to
action. Speak the word earnestly, fear-
lessly, and with confidence. Know that
the "Power which worketh in you" frees
through your thought or word those who
are in any way in bondage to sense or
belief. *fl
Overcoming means the surmounting of
all obstacles, the triumph of Truth over
error, the banishing of all sense delusions
through the revelation of Truththat
which is Real. It means neither strife nor
anxietyit is the natural, orderly unfold-
ment of the growing soul that is true and
steadfast to its highest vision.
Such resolute, constant practice of
Truth is sure in its beneficent results, as
voiced by John
the Revelator: "To him
that overcometh will I grant to sit with
me in my throne," thus conferring power
and dominion. "He that overcometh, the
same shall be clothed in white raiment/'
signifying purity from all false concep-
tion. "He that overcometh shall inherit
all things," because he then knows his
oneness with God, and can say, "All that
the Father hath is mine/' "To him that
overcometh will I give to eat of the hid-
den manna"
"to eat of the tree of life."

Steadfastness to Truth establishes
character. "The Lord is faithful, who
shall stablish you, and keep you from
evil."
Butas was said of Reuben
"Unstable as water, thou shalt not

excel."
STEADFASTNESS TO TRUTH HI
Faithfulness is shown in one's lifeDe-
vout, guileless, holy, humble, liberal, lov-
ing, merciful, obedient, prudent; pure in
heart, righteous in thought, just in action
;
sincere, loyal, watchful, steadfast, and
zealous of good works. Such an one is
reverent, led by the Spirit, and taught of
God.
How to Become Steadfast.
"Hold fast the form of sound words/'
"Endure hardship as a good soldier/'
"Prove all things ; hold fast that which
is good/'
"Wherefore take unto you the whole
armor of God, that ye may be able to
withstand."
You get that to which you are recep-
tive. As you sow, so shall you reap.
"Stand fast in the Lord." First, in de-
sire, in thought ; then in practice. And
you will thus fulfill your whole duty.
For, "Let us hear the conclusion of the
whole matter: Fear (honor, reverence,
serve) God, and keep his commandments:
for this is the whole duty of man/'
Therefore, "Let patience have her per-
fect work, that ye may be perfect and en-
tire, wanting nothing."
"Holding fast the profession of our
faith without wavering; (for he is faithful
that promised).
"
"Let us not be weary in well doing: for
in due season we shall reap, if we faint
not."
"Being confident of this very thing,
that he which hath begun a good work in
you will perform it."
"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
steadfast, immovable, always abounding
in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know that your labor is not in vain in the
Lord."
In steadfastly beholding One Presence
filling all and being all, the One and Only
Substance, we lose the conception of lack,
and manifest Opulence, Supply; "for of
His fullness have all we received."
In steadfastly seeing God as perfect
Order and Peace, we lose the conception
of all discordant notes in ourselves and
environment, and Harmony, Love and
Happiness prevail.
In steadfastly holding the Idea of Life,
Harmony and Strength, we lose all con-
ception of the opposite, and manifest
Health.
In steadfastly adhering to Right,
Jus-
tice, Balance, mental belief in their oppo-
STEADFASTNESS TO TRUTH H3
sites is supplanted by the realization that
Intelligent Love rules the universe.
In steadfastly
holding to the Truth of
our basisthe Omnipresence, we relieve
ourselves of every conception of anything
adverse, the resultant consequence of
which is Heaven here and now.
1. What is the meaning of "steadfastness"?
2. Are integrity and loyalty elements of it?
3. To be true to Truth, can you give place in
your thought to anything seemingly not good?
4. How may you keep your poise when others
about you are proclaiming evil?
5. What effect will your loyalty to Truth have
upon others?
6. Do you speak the Word of Truth with con-
fidence in its power?
7. What does steadfastness do for you?
8. Has it changed your attitude, so that you
realize the "fruit of the Spirit" in your thoughts,
words and deeds?
9. What is the value of "holding fast the form
of sound words"?
10. To be steadfast, in what must you trust?
LESSON XIII
GROWING IN GRACE
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GRACE IS SUFFICIENT
FOR THEE," was the re-
sponse of the Inner Voice, or
Lord, unto Paul when he turned to it for
help in the midst of his afflictions. What
is this Grace which is so satisfying and
sustaining? from whence does it come?
and how may it be attained?
To be graceful means to exhibit beauty
in form or action; full of excellence, har-
mony and peace ; having attractiveness
and charm. Beauty is the symmetry and
order of the qualities of Being encom-
passed as a whole ; an aggregation of the
properties of virtue, goodness and Truth
;
the rounded-out expression of that which
is pleasing, satisfying, ennobling,
strengthening, purifying, healing, and in-
spiring.
Coleridge says, "There is no doubt that
the definition given by the ancient Ro-
mans reveals the real principle of Beauty
Multitude in unity/' The many quali-

ties of Being acting as an harmonious
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wholeoneconstitutes the essence of
Beauty, which, in turn, is the essence of
Grace; and exhibiting these characteris-
tics of the divine nature, one expresses
ease, poise, peace, gentleness, good-will,
and a kindly disposition toward all things,
conditions and people.
Grace, then, is the very essence of God
implanted in you. It is your divine birth-
right. All the inherencies of Being (an
"inherency" being that which is infixed,
belongs to, and can not be separated
from) when combined and developed as a
whole in you constitutes the "grace of
God" in youand there is no other kind.
Therefore, the source of Grace is God;
the Cause constituting the Effect. The
conception of mentality that "Grace is
the divine unmerited favor toward man,"
so long taught by the church, is mani-
festly untrue and unreasonable. Being
the expression or child of God, man by
divine right inherits every quality of his
Source.
Paul spiritually discerned this Truth,
when he declared, "All are partakers with
me of grace." That which is true of one
is true of all. More and more are we
awakening to our divine inheritance.
These qualities have been within us all
GROWING IN GRACE H7
the time, but we have been asleep and
knew it not.
Now the clarion Voice of Truth is
awakening us. Its call is, "Awake, thou
that sleepest. and Christ shall give thee
light." For Christ is the Light of God,
the revelation of Truth, that inner con-
viction by which one becomes aware of
the Truth, and knows that he knows
through the "witness of the Spirit/'
For, again says the metaphysician Paul,
"unto every one of us is given grace ac-
cording to the measure of the gift of
Christ/' That is, each one becomes con-
scious of these divine qualities within him
to the extent that he arouses himself from
the sense sleep of belief, fear and doubt,
and lets the Christ-light reveal them as
the very elements of his being.
According to the degree of Light to
which you have opened yourself, do you
have certain "gifts" in which you are pro-
ficient: "the word of wisdom," "the word
of knowledge," "faith," "healing," "work-
ing of miracles," "prophecy," "discerning
of spirits," "divers kinds of tongues," "in-
terpretation of tongues."
These are called "gifts," but not Grace.
Open yourself fully to the full light of
Truththe Christand you will then be
awake to all your potentialities, eapabili-
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ties and possibilities, and thus putting
into activity every quality of your being,
knowing "that in everything ye are en-
riched by him," you will be full of Grace
and Truth.
Attainment of Grace therefore means
awakening to the realization of your true
Self, and this depends upon you alone, for
it is written truly, "But all these worketh
that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing
to every man severally as he will." How
many of the qualities of your being do
you will to manifestonly certain gifts
or the full grace of God, all your inher-
encies?
You can grow in Grace only through
exercising your gifts or divine character-
istics. All growth is unfoldment, uncov-
ering and bringing forth that which is
already within. It is the "stirring up of
the gift of God which is in us," as Paul
enjoins us to do.
Therefore, to grow in Grace, to de-
velop the latent powers of your being, is
a process of becoming conscious of what
God is and therefore what you are.
How to Grow.
The first essential is to know the inher-
encies or attributes of your being. This
is done by inner contemplation or medi-
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119
tation, letting the Truth reveal itself eas-
ily and naturally, without any stress or
anxiety. You can not force the revelation
of Truth. But you can prepare the way
for its free expression by calmly meditat-
ing upon it, and keeping an open and re-
ceptive attitude toward it.
The next essential is to associate your-
self definitely with the truths thus per-
ceived. This you do by your word or af-
firmation. Do not be afraid to declare for
yourself every quality of God; for, since
you are the expression of God, your only
real qualities are truly the very inheren-
ces of Being.
God is manifesting Himself in Man.
You possess all the attributes of this One
and Only Presencethe only Reality. An
attribute means a characteristic of, a
quality belonging to, caused by, and con-
sisting of that to which it refers.
Therefore, you should "hold fast the
form of sound words," refusing to think
of negative conditions. Every thought of
Life, Peace, Health, Power,
Joy
(sound,
true words or ideas) is constructive, re-
generating, strengthening, and purifying
verily God thinking in you.
Then practice in your daily living your
highest conceptions of Truth and what
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you are. Try to think, speak, act and be
that which you have affirmed.
.
This is the process of growthfrom
within outward. You are alive just to the
extent that you are conscious of God's
Presence and Power in you. The process
is easy and natural, but you must be true
and steadfast to it, and then will every
moment be filled with Life, Love, Peace.
Health and Plenty.
1. What is the meaning of "grace"?
2. What is the difference between "grace" and
"gifts"?
3. From whence do you receive grace?
4. By what means is it expressed in you?
5. Upon what does the amount of grace you
realize deepnd?
6. What is the first essential in order to grow
in grace?
7. Then what must you do?
8. What is the process or order of unfoldment^
9. Why should you apply the qualities of God
to yourself?
10. Only through what method can you grow in
grace ?
LESSON XIV
HEAVENHERE AND NOW
S
ASSIMILATED the fundamental
F YOU HAVE DIGESTED AND
Principles of Truth as given in this
series of lessons, von have already en-
tered into the New Jerusalem, the City
of Peace, called Heaven. You did not
have to go anywhere to find it, nor was it
necessary to postpone its realization until
that event in Life called death.
How these truths are penetrating and
pervading the old orthodox religious be-
liefs and teachings! As a child (son of a
Methodist Episcopal minister) I was
taught that Heaven was the abode of the
righteous, into whose portals we could
not enter except through the gates of
Death, and then only if we had lived
righteously here in this preparatory
school., The main thought of the teaching
of the church was therefore to prepare
for death. How rapidly the change in the
last few years, thanks to the revelation of
Divine ScienceKnowledge of Truth !
121
What Is Heaven?
Heaven is the realm of Gladness where-
in one realizes that God the Good is the
Only Reality; that
Joy
and Satisfaction
which come only through knowing the
Truth; that Peace which is undisturbed
by doubts, fears and mental misconcep-
tions.
Joy
means to be glad, to have delight,
to be contented and happy. To rejoice
means to joy or gladden again; and when
this shall have become perpetual you are
ever aglow with the Good with which you
are consciously one.
The high key-note of the philosophy of
Jesus
was
Joy
not sorrow, through the
awakening of the Christ within which re-
veals only the Good and True and Har-
monious.
Joy
comes only through the recogni-
tion and acceptance of the Truth. You
can not have Tov in that which vou call
wrong.
Refreshing, then, is this realization of
the truth of Heaven, by Rev. F. N. Pelou-
bet, D.D., an orthodox minister and au-
thor: "What is heaven? It is a state of
mind and heart, and any place in which
that state is realized."
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Where Is Heaven?
Heaven is anywhere that God isand
God is omnipresent ! Wherever this Pres-
ence is recognized there is Heaven. You
are taking a long chance if you are wait-
ing until you die to "go to heaven;" for
Heaven is not a locality, but a state of
mind. If you have not learned to recog-
nize the harmony and order of Life here
on earth, you will not be fitted to perceive
and know it all of a sudden upon entering
into the physically unseen. But if you
have been awakened to the living Pres-
ence of God in all things, in every condi-
tion and experience, you have attained
that Peace, Serenity and Satisfaction
whereby you realize Heaven all about you
and within you.
It was
Jesus
himself who emphasized
this fact, when he referred to the beliefs
of humanity, saying that some say, "Lo!
here; and others, Lo ! there." Heaven
can not be located either up in the skies
or in any certain spot or place upon the
earth.
Jesus
emphatically declares the
Truth of Heaven in these words : "But I
say unto you, the kingdom of God is with-
in you." Within you, within me, within
everyone! Wherever God-Presence is
realized, wherever God-Power is the rul-
ing authority, wherever God-Love is felt,
wherever God-Intelligence illumines in
Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding
there is Heaven, the realization of
Truth; for the Kingdom of God is the
Kingdom of Heaven. "In thy Presence/'
sang the Psalmist, "is fullness of
Joy/'
Since God is omnipresent, and Heaven
is where God is, why is not everybody
happy, well and prosperous? for these are
certainly elements of that Perfect Order
and Harmony called Heaven. Simply be-
cause of the blindness of mentality, which
has not yet become aware or conscious of
the Truth. Mentality inv.ents many "evil
imaginings/' "strange devices," and many
"powers" adverse to the Good, which it
ignorantly accepts as realities, thus ob-
scuring the Truth. They are the clouds
of belief, fear, superstition, and evil, which
shut out the sun from our view; but the
sun and its light are still there. So how-
ever much we may dwell in darkness, and
feel all the effects of its distorted beliefs.
Truth still shines for the one ready to be-
hold it.
What and Where Is Hell?
The one who is not consciously abiding
in Heaven is living in hell ; for hell is dis-
cord, inharmonv, failure, sin, sickness.
HEAVENHERE AND NOW 125
suffering, jealousy, enmity, avarice, and
death. And you do not have to go any-
where to find this condition, do you ? It is
according to your kind of thinking
whether you are enjoying the bliss of
Heaven or suffering the pangs of hell.
Realization of Good as the only reality is
Heaven; ignorance of this Truth is its
opposite.
How Heaven Is Attained.
That which we experience is the nat-
ural and rightful result or effect of Law.
The Law of Heaven is order, peace, se-
renity, justice, mercy, goodness, truth.
Violate any of these phases of Law, and
you reap discord, confusion, inharmony,
sickness and poverty. As a man soweth
so shall he reap. Sow to the flesh, and of
the flesh you will reap corruption and
death ; sow to the Spirit and of the Spirit
you will reap the realization of Eternal
Life and Happiness.
Give ear to the promptings of Truth
within you. Awake, and let the Christ,
the Light of Truth, reveal unto you but
One Presence and Power in all the Uni-
versethe Good Omnipotent ; follow its
leading conscientiously, bringing forth
the "fruit of the Spirit"love, joy, peace,
forbearance,
gentleness, faith, meekness.
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temperance, and you will come into the
consciousness of the Allness of God the
Good, both invisible and visible, and will
enjoy to the fullness of your capacity
Heaven here and now. Then wherever
you are, in the body or out of it, you will
be in Heaven, for you will take it with
you, and enjoy the Good forevermore.
1. What is heaven?
2. Where is it?
3. When is it to be realized and enjoyed?
4. Must you go anywhere to find it?
5. Must you wait until you leave the body to
know it?
6. Are you preparing to dieor to live?
7. What is the way to heaven?
8. What and where is hell?
9. Can there be any sense of discord and inhar-
mony where the full presence of God is realized?
10. The more of Truth you realize here, will you
not the more of heaven enjoy here also?
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The Omnipresence and Its Inherencies. . . 13

Truth and Reality 23

The Law of Expression 31

Application of the Omnipresence 47

The Power of the Word

Health and Healing

Spiritual and Material Prosperity 97

Here and Now

"With all thy getting, get the understand-

Substance. The One and Only Substance

Spirit. All visible substance, called mat-

Truth proclaims that there can, in fact,

"expressed"the Perfect Idea clothed

God, who or which

must of necessity be just like the cause,

thinking with God, or rather, to realize

The Christ. It may be known

verily your savior. The impersonal

the most God-con-

you will be-

Gal. 5:22,23. These are the expressions

Lawdo we realize and enjoy peace and

Jesus the Christ

says, "The kingdom of God is within

the activity of Mind ; Wordthe Result

nothing, there is no actual cause for dis-

is to think ''God's Thoughts after Him,"

however, we obscure our vision of this

receptiveness to Truth. Desire is the in-

in the personal thought or belief. There-

"all these things shall be added unto

the personal thought

looks to its own efforts for success. It

"heirs of God, and

"to eat of the tree of life."

"Unstable as water, thou shalt not

Multitude in unity/' The many quali-

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